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Hobhouse, John Cam.
Estimate
1,200 - 1,800 GBP
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Description
- A Journey through Albania, and other provinces of Turkey in Europe and Asia, to Constantinople, during the years 1809 and 1810. London: James Cawthorn, 1813
Second edition, 2 volumes, 4to (265 x 205mm.), 17 hand-coloured aquatint plates, 7 double-page, plain engraved frontispiece, 2 folding maps, one plan, 2 plates of inscriptions and one double-page plate of music, contemporary red half morocco, spines gilt, somewhat spotted and browned, paper flaw in 4D4 with loss of page numeral
Provenance
Egremont, bookplate; George Wyndham, R.N., signature on title to vol.1 and lettered in gilt on spines "G.W." - presumably George Francis Wyndham (1789-1845), fourth earl of Egremont, of Petworth Park, Sussex
Literature
Weber I, 33; Abbey, Travel 202; cf. Atabey 584 and Blackmer 821 (both first editions)
Catalogue Note
a good copy of Hobhouse's account of a tour made with his friend Lord Byron in 1809 and 1810. It is an important source for that period in Byron's life, the intellectual movement prior to the outbreak of the Greek insurrection and for its depiction of life in the court of Ali Pasha, with whom Hobhouse stayed in 1809. Much of volume 2 relates to Turkey.