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HUNTER, William. Travels through France, Turkey, and Hungary, to Vienna, in 1792. To which are added several tours in Hungary, in 1799 and 1800. London: T. Bensley for J. White, 1803.
2 volumes, large 8° bound in 4s (264 x 158mm). Hand-coloured engraved map, portrait frontispiece to vol.I and 12 plates, all stipple-engraved and printed in colours, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with the hand-coloured title and 61 hand-coloured plates from William Miller's Costume of Turkey. (Some light spotting.) Red straight-grained morocco gilt by Staggemeier & Welcher, covers elaborately tooled in gilt and blind with a wide border, the decoration including some fine pointillé work, spines in six compartments with double raised bands, lettered in the second and third, the others with repeat overall decoration composed from various small tools, brown glazed-paper paste-down and endleaves, all bordered in gilt, gilt edges (light scuffing to joints and extremities).
THIRD EDITION, 'LARGEST PAPER, WITH COLOURED PLATES, 20 COPIES PRINTED' (Lowndes). A finely bound copy extra-illustrated with the set of plates from Miller's work. Atabey I, 602; Lowndes II, p.1145. (2)
2 volumes, large 8° bound in 4s (264 x 158mm). Hand-coloured engraved map, portrait frontispiece to vol.I and 12 plates, all stipple-engraved and printed in colours, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with the hand-coloured title and 61 hand-coloured plates from William Miller's Costume of Turkey. (Some light spotting.) Red straight-grained morocco gilt by Staggemeier & Welcher, covers elaborately tooled in gilt and blind with a wide border, the decoration including some fine pointillé work, spines in six compartments with double raised bands, lettered in the second and third, the others with repeat overall decoration composed from various small tools, brown glazed-paper paste-down and endleaves, all bordered in gilt, gilt edges (light scuffing to joints and extremities).
THIRD EDITION, 'LARGEST PAPER, WITH COLOURED PLATES, 20 COPIES PRINTED' (Lowndes). A finely bound copy extra-illustrated with the set of plates from Miller's work. Atabey I, 602; Lowndes II, p.1145. (2)
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