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SIR HENRY HOLLAND (1788-1873)
Travels in the Ionian Isles, Albania, Thessaly, Macedonia, &c. during the years 1812 and 1813. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1815. 4° (275 x 210mm). 12 engraved plates, 1 engraved map. (Plate facing p.496 with large section of blank margin torn away and repaired, spotting to plates and adjacent text, including title.) Contemporary tree calf gilt, covers with triple fillet border with small corner-piece tools, spine in six compartments with raised bands, red morocco lettering-piece in the second, the others with repeat neo-classical decoration in gilt, marbled turn-ins, marbled endpapers (light scuffing to extremities). FIRST EDITION. Atabey 589; Bib. Ionienne 880; Blackmer 825; Weber 37.
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REV. CHRISTOPHER WORDSWORTH. Athens and Attica: journal of a residence there. John Murray: 1837. 8° (215 x 135mm). Text occasionally printed in red and black. 3 lithographic plates, 2 folding engraved maps, folding letterpress plate of inscriptions printed in red and black. (Some spotting.) Contemporary half calf gilt (spine faded). Provenance: Marquis of Abercorn (presentation inscription from the author). Second edition. Cf. Blackmer 1839 (first edition). (2)
Travels in the Ionian Isles, Albania, Thessaly, Macedonia, &c. during the years 1812 and 1813. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1815. 4° (275 x 210mm). 12 engraved plates, 1 engraved map. (Plate facing p.496 with large section of blank margin torn away and repaired, spotting to plates and adjacent text, including title.) Contemporary tree calf gilt, covers with triple fillet border with small corner-piece tools, spine in six compartments with raised bands, red morocco lettering-piece in the second, the others with repeat neo-classical decoration in gilt, marbled turn-ins, marbled endpapers (light scuffing to extremities). FIRST EDITION. Atabey 589; Bib. Ionienne 880; Blackmer 825; Weber 37.
[With:]
REV. CHRISTOPHER WORDSWORTH. Athens and Attica: journal of a residence there. John Murray: 1837. 8° (215 x 135mm). Text occasionally printed in red and black. 3 lithographic plates, 2 folding engraved maps, folding letterpress plate of inscriptions printed in red and black. (Some spotting.) Contemporary half calf gilt (spine faded). Provenance: Marquis of Abercorn (presentation inscription from the author). Second edition. Cf. Blackmer 1839 (first edition). (2)
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