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Macmichael, William
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600 - 900 GBP
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Description
- Journey from Moscow to Constantinople. London: John Murray, 1819, FIRST EDITION, viii, 272pp., 6 aquatint plates, [Abbey, Travel 20; Atabey 747; Blackmer 1054; Weber I, 79]
- Paper
LEGH, THOMAS. Narrative of a Journey in Egypt. London: John Murray, 1816, FIRST EDITION, iii-viii, [iv (Table of contents to chapters 1 & 2)], 158pp., engraved folding map and folding plate, [cf. Abbey, Travel 267 (second edition only); Blackmer 999; Hilmy p.364], lacking half-title, map offset
2 volumes bound in one, 4to (248 x 205mm.), contemporary half calf, flat raised bands, double dark red labels, marbled boards, mottled edges
2 volumes bound in one, 4to (248 x 205mm.), contemporary half calf, flat raised bands, double dark red labels, marbled boards, mottled edges
Provenance
Langford-Brooke of Mere Hall, Knutsford, manuscript ownership note
Catalogue Note
"MacMichael was elected a Radcliffe travelling fellow in 1812, and he made several journeys to the Levant between 1812 and 1817. On this last journey he was accompanied by Thomas Legh who had just produced an account of his own travels in Egypt" (Atabey).
About a quarter of the Macmichael's book contains an account of Thomas Legh's tour in Palestine and Syria from Jerusalem on his way to Constantinople via Hebron, the Dead Sea, Acre, Tyre, Baalbec, Damascus, Palmyra and Aleppo, which is not covered in Legh's own book.