Turner, William.

Estimate

1,500 - 2,000 GBP

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Description

Journal of a Tour in the Levant. London: John Murray, 1820

first edition, 3 volumes, 8vo (215 x 131mm.), 2 half-titles (of 3), 2 engraved folding maps, 22 plates including 6 hand-coloured aquatints, some folding, errata leaf at end of volume 3, contemporary half calf, spines gilt, lacking half-title in vol.3, 2E8 (p.431) in vol.3 with short tear repaired, occasional light spotting, slight offsetting of text onto plate at p.396 vol.2, bindings slightly rubbed

Literature

Atabey 1251; Blackmer 1687; Abbey, Travel 375; Cobham-Jeffery p.61; Hilmy II, p.297; Weber I, 194

Catalogue Note

Turner spent five years in the Levant when he was attached to the British embassy in Constantinople. He visited most parts of the Ottoman dominions in mainland Greece and the islands, as well as the Holy Land, Syria and Egypt, and includes lengthy descriptions of two visits to Cyprus.