Newton, Charles Thomas

Estimate

400 - 500 GBP

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Description

Travels & Discoveries in the Levant. London: Day & Son, 1865
Paper

FIRST EDITION, 2 volumes, 8vo (245 x 157mm.), (vol.1) xiv, [ii], 360pp.; (vol.2) [iv], vii-xiv, [ii], 276pp., 10 maps and plans, 31 plates [including 12 mounted photos], contemporary half vellum, dark red marbled ribbed silk boards, full gilt spines, red and green labels, dark red marbled endpapers, top edges gilt

Provenance

John George Fenwick, armorial bookplate

Literature

Atabey 869; Blackmer 1193; Weber I, 636

Catalogue Note

Together with an autograph letter from the author, loosely inserted.

Newton was vice-consul in the Levant between 1852 and 1859, and conducted a number of archaeological excavations in the region of Mitylene, at Rhodes, Kalymnos and at sites on the coast of Asian Minor, before directing the excavation of Halicarnassus. The plates include albumen prints of antiquities by Francis Bedford after Newton.