Lot 137
  • 137

Fellows, Charles

Estimate
1,800 - 2,200 GBP
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Description

  • A Journal written during an excursion in Asia Minor. London: John Murray, 1839
  • paper
FIRST EDITION, large 8vo (241 x 163mm.), 21 plates (19 lithographed, 2 etched), one double-page, folding engraved map, illustrations, contemporary calf gilt, gilt edges

Provenance

Richard S.L. Worsley, inscription; Sefik Atabey, book label; Franklin Brooke-Hitching, pencil initials (a duplicate not included in his sale)

Literature

Atabey 424 (this copy, described as large paper); Blackmer 578; Ioannou, Cyprus and the Levant from the Sylvia Ioannou Foundation, I, p.178; Weber I, 291

Condition

a good copy
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Catalogue Note

THE ATABEY COPY. A very good copy of Fellows' first work on Lycia.