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Walpole, Robert.
Estimate
500 - 700 GBP
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Description
- Travels in various Countries of the East; being a continuation of Memoirs relating to European and Asiatic Turkey, &c. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Browne, 1820
first edition, 4to (270 x 205mm.), 2 engraved maps and 11 plates, one double-page, one folding, contemporary tree calf, rebacked, small loss from lower cover, corners repaired
Provenance
Thomas Wilkinson, signature; Sefik E. Atabey, book label
Literature
Blackmer 1763; Cobham-Jeffery p.64; Weber I, 97; Atabey 1311
Catalogue Note
Among the interesting contributions are: Leake on Asia Minor, W.G. Browne on a journey through Asia Minor to Constantinople, essays by Cockerell, Hunt and Wilkins, and a continuation of excerpts from Sibthorp's journals (on the Grecian Seas, including the islands of Cyprus (pp.13-24), Patmos and Stenosa) as well as important material by John Hawkins.