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Dodwell, Edward.
Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Description
- A Classical and Topographical Tour through Greece during the years 1801, 1805, and 1806. London: Rodwell and Martin, 1819
first edition, 2 volumes, 4to (270 x 206mm.), folding engraved map and 66 plates, 6 double-page, illustrations in text, contemporary calf, lacking errata leaf in vol.1, offsetting and spotting, map spotted and slightly stained, pp.166-7 vol.2 with adhesion (and consequent loss of a few letters), binding somewhat stained and rubbed, rebacked retaining original spines
Provenance
George Wilbraham, bookplate; Guy Evans, book label
Literature
Atabey 356; Blackmer 492; Weber I, 62
Catalogue Note
Dodwell undertook two Grecian tours: the first with Sir William Gell in 1801 to the Ionian islands and the Troad, the second whilst a prisoner of war allowed by his French captors to explore mainland Greece and to revisit the Ionian islands.