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GUILLAUME ANTOINE OLIVIER (1756-1814)
Travels in the Ottoman Empire, Egypt and Persia, London: T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1801. 2 volumes and atlas in one volume. 4° (264 x 205mm.). Half titles, 16 engraved plates and maps, 4 folding. (Title of second part supplied in facsimile, repairs to first title and contents page, 2 leaves with small piece torn away from margins, some plates and text leaves cropped affecting headlines, short tear to first map, spotting mainly to plates, crossed through ink signature on first title). Modern calf-backed boards (edges lightly rubbed). Provenance: Ricardo A. Caminos (bookplate).
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Volumes one and 2 only were published and plate IX never published. cf. Blackmer 1220; Lowndes 4, 1725: "an esteemed work"; Nissen ZBI 3011.
Travels in the Ottoman Empire, Egypt and Persia, London: T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1801. 2 volumes and atlas in one volume. 4° (264 x 205mm.). Half titles, 16 engraved plates and maps, 4 folding. (Title of second part supplied in facsimile, repairs to first title and contents page, 2 leaves with small piece torn away from margins, some plates and text leaves cropped affecting headlines, short tear to first map, spotting mainly to plates, crossed through ink signature on first title). Modern calf-backed boards (edges lightly rubbed). Provenance: Ricardo A. Caminos (bookplate).
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Volumes one and 2 only were published and plate IX never published. cf. Blackmer 1220; Lowndes 4, 1725: "an esteemed work"; Nissen ZBI 3011.
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