Leake, William.

Estimate

1,500 - 2,000 GBP

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Description

Travels in the Morea. London: John Murray, 1830

first edition, 3 volumes, 8vo (217 x 130mm.), 3 half-titles, 17 maps and plans (including one large folding general map), 12 (of 13) plates of inscriptions, nineteenth-century purple calf gilt by Bickers & Son, lacking one plate of inscriptions (with fig. no. 11-18), a few maps/plans spotted, folding map slightly offset

Provenance

Alexander Grant, presentation inscription on his leaving Eton in 1866

Literature

Atabey 691; Blackmer 974 (lacking some maps and plans); Droulia 1884-6; Weber I, 189

Catalogue Note

An account of two tours, one in 1805 and the other the following year, published, as with many of his works, some considerable time after the events described. Nonetheless it is full of interesting detail, with particular attention paid to Mycenae and Tiryns.