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LEAKE, William Martin (1777-1860). Travels in the Morea. London: John Murray, 1830. 3 volumes, 8°. 17 engraved maps and plans, 6 folding, one large and folding, 13 lithographed plates of inscriptions. Mid-19th-century tan calf gilt, green and tan morocco lettering and numbering pieces on spines, marbled edges (spines lightly rubbed, one label becoming loose). Provenance: H.E. Butler, 1863 (presentation inscription on an endpaper from Charles S. Mainwaring on the former's leaving Eton). FIRST EDITION of one of several works on the topography of ancient Greece by Colonel Leake, 'still of considerable importance in that field...His published inscriptions in ancient Greek soon entered the standard corpora', Oxford DNB. (3)
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