Lot 1190
  • 1190

Spencer, Edmund

Estimate
300 - 400 GBP
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Description

  • Travels in Circassia, Krim-Tartary, &c. including a steam voyage down the Danube, from Vienna to Constantinople, and round the Black Sea… third edition. London: Henry Colburn, 1839
  • paper
2 volumes, 8vo (215 x 130mm.), (vol.1) xxiv, 392pp.; (vol.2) xii, 416pp., folding lithographed map, 4 lithographed plates, 2 coloured, 15 illustrations in the text, contemporary dark blue calf gilt [by Ingalton of Eton], double red labels, marbled endpapers, and edges

Provenance

Frederick Lyons, Eton leaving inscription on a specially-printed leaf bound in

Literature

Atabey 1164; Blackmer 1580

Condition

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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Catalogue Note

This edition is revised and includes a vocabulary. Two of the plates are also different from earlier editions.