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

Turkey and Greece | 5 volumes, Chandler, Dallaway Griffiths and Walpole

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


TURKEY AND GREECE

A collection of six works in five volumes, 4to, comprising:


Chandler, R. Travels in Asia Minor... second edition. London: Dodsley [&c.], 1776, engraved folding map, bound with:

Chandler, R. Travels in Greece. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1776, FIRST EDITION, 7 engraved maps and plans, together 2 vol. in one, contemporary calf, bookplate of Edward Oates and other family members, slightly rubbed, slight loss to foot of spine

Dallaway, J. Constantinople. London: Bensley, 1797, engraved title, 10 aquatint plates, modern brown half morocco, occasional spotting or offsetting

Griffiths, J. Travels in Europe, Asia Minor, and Arabia. London: Cadell & Davies, 1805, half-title, engraved portrait, folding map and 4 plates, contemporary blue calf gilt, plates and a few leaves spotted

Walpole, R. Memoirs relating to European and Asiatic Turkey. London: Longman [&c.], 1817, engraved map and 13 plates, some double-page, errata slip loosely inserted, contemporary calf, some leaves misbound at beginning, plates spotted, spine repaired, upper joint split

all but the first FIRST EDITIONS; and one other, a poor copy of Wittman's Travels in Turkey (1803)


LITERATURE:

Atabey 215 (first edition), - , 308, 530, 1310; Blackmer 318 (first edition), 319, - , 755, 1762