Hobhouse, John Cam

First edition, 4to (262 x 202mm.), frontispiece, 2 folding maps, 1 plan, 17 hand-coloured aquatints (7 double-page), 2 plates of letters and 2 of Greek music, contemporary straight-grained purple morocco gilt, [Abbey, Travel 202], bookplate of Peter John Bruff, first folding map strengthened, second one a bit dampstained, a few plates shaved, binding rubbed

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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Also included in this lot is a first edition of Byron’s Hebrew Melodies (London, 1815), later half calf.