Spratt | Travels and Researches in Crete, 1865, 2 volumes | Pashley, Travels in Crete, 1837, 2 volumes

GREECE AND THE LEVANT, A PRIVATE LIBRARY, LOTS 157-213

CRETE

Two important works on Crete, comprising:

Pashley, Robert. Travels in Crete. Cambridge and London: John Murray, 1837, 2 vol., 8vo, FIRST EDITION, half-titles, 10 lithographed plates, one folding lithographed map, one folding leaf of inscriptions, wood-engraved illustrations (4 full-page), errata leaf, 16pp. adverts, early twentieth-century morocco-backed boards, bookplate of Paul Lagrave, some plates slightly spotted

Spratt, T.A.B. Travels and researches in Crete. London: van Voorst, 1865, 2 vol., 8vo, FIRST EDITION, 2 folding hand-coloured engraved maps, 17 lithographed plates (including 14 tinted), lithographed and woodcut illustrations (most on india paper), advert leaf at beginning of vol.1 and end of vol.2, original cloth, bindings very slightly soiled and very slightly rubbed

LITERATURE:

Blackmer 1263 and 1590