Wittman, William.

Estimate

700 - 1,000 GBP

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Description

Travels in Turkey, Asia-Minor, Syria, and across the desert into Egypt during the years 1799, 1800, and 1801, in company with the Turkish army, and British Military Mission. London: Printed for Richard Phillips, 1803

first edition, 4to (265 x 200mm.), folding engraved frontispiece, folding Firman and one folding map, 21 plates (comprising 16 hand-coloured aquatint plates, one hand-colured map and 4 plain plates), contemporary half russia, some coloured plates slightly soiled, plain plates spotted, folding plates and map torn (without loss), binding rebacked retaining original label, new endpapers

Provenance

C. Robert Bignold, book label

Literature

Blackmer 1832; Cobham-Jeffery p.65; Contominas 807; Weber II, 647; Atabey 1832

Catalogue Note

The account begins in Constantinople and its environs, a period described in some detail. From there the Mission travelled by way of Patmos and Limasol to Jaffa, visiting various sites in the Holy Land before proceeding to Cairo. The return took in Rhodes, Samos and Chios. Other members of the Mission included W.M. Leake, E.D. Clarke, William Hamilton and Hammer-Purgstall.