Exploration and Discovery, 1576-1939 The Library of Franklin Brooke-Hitching Part 4, Q-Z

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Lot 1373
  • 1373

Wittman, William

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Description

  • Travels in Turkey, Asia-Minor, Syria, and across the Desert into Egypt during the Years 1799 [-] 1801, in company with the Turkish army, and the British Military Mission. London: Richard Phillips, 1803
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FIRST EDITION, 4to (268 x 207mm.), xvi, 480, *481-*504, 481-596pp., 2 engraved maps [1 coloured, 1 folding], 21 engraved or aquatint plates [16 hand-coloured], contemporary mottled calf, full gilt spine, black label, marbled edges and endpapers, a few plates spotted

Provenance

From the library of the Duke of Abercorn, pencil note

Literature

Atabey 1344; Blackmer 1832; Hilmy II, p.339; Weber II, 647; not in Abbey

Catalogue Note

Wittman was a member of the Anglo-Turkish expeditionary force which travelled overland from Constantinople to Egypt in 1799 to take part in the campaign against the French.