Lot 387
  • 387

Wilde, William Robert Wills

Estimate
400 - 600 GBP
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Description

  • Narrative of a voyage to Madeira, Teneriffe, and along the shores of the Mediterranean, including a visit to Algiers, Egypt, Palestine, Tyre, Rhodes, Telmessus, Cyprus, and Greece. Dublin: William Curry, 1840
  • paper
FIRST EDITION, 2 volumes, 8vo (211 x 128mm.), 4 lithographed plates, 2 engraved plans, hand-coloured in outline, illustrations in text, plate list in vol.1, contemporary green half morocco, spines gilt

Literature

Blackmer 1795; Hilmy II, p.329; Ioannou, Cyprus and the Levant from the Sylvia Ioannou Foundation, II, p.557; not in Atabey

Condition

a good copy
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