Galt, John.

Estimate

500 - 700 GBP

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Description

Letters from the Levant; containing views of the state of society, manners, opinions, and commerce, in Greece, and several of the principal islands of the archipelago. London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1813

first edition, 8vo (228 x 135mm.), engraved map frontispiece of Greece oriented with west at the top, modern half calf, uncut, some leaves with dampstaining

Provenance

A.C. Lascarides, book label

Literature

Blackmer 645; Contominas 274; Weber I, 32; Atabey 474

Catalogue Note

Byron wrote of Galt in his journal, "we are old fellow-travellers, and, with all his eccentricities, he has much strong sense, experience of the world, and is, as far as I have seen, a good-natured philosophical fellow". This work, consisting of letters actually written during his time travelling in the Levant during 1809-11, was published following the relative success of his Voyages and Travels in 1812, and contains a good deal about Byron.