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TAITBOUT DE MARIGNY, Jacques Victor Édouard. Three Voyages in the Black Sea to the Coast of Circassia. London: John Murray, 1837. 8° (212 x 130mm), lithographic frontispiece and folding map, wood-engraved title vignette. (Frontispiece spotted at margins, lacks half-title.) Contemporary maroon half calf by Alexander Banks Jr., Edinburgh (spine faded and scuff-marked, corners rubbed). FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, following the unauthorised French edition published in Odessa a year earlier. Atabey 1191 (this copy); not in Blackmer.
VANE [formerly STEWART], Charles William (1778-1854). A Steam Voyage to Constantinople ... in 1840-41, and to Portugal, Spain, &c. in 1839. London: Henry Colburn, 1842. 2 vols., 8° (221 x 136mm), engraved frontispiece portraits and lithographed view of Constantinople. (Portraits heavily spotted, one partially detached, occasional spotting of text.) Original maroon cloth gilt (recased with new endpapers, spines repaired and slightly worn, some sunfading). FIRST EDITION of 'a very interesting work ... with comments on the state of Greece under the Bavarians'. Atabey 1177 (this copy?); Blackmer 1611; Weber I, 345. (2)
VANE [formerly STEWART], Charles William (1778-1854). A Steam Voyage to Constantinople ... in 1840-41, and to Portugal, Spain, &c. in 1839. London: Henry Colburn, 1842. 2 vols., 8° (221 x 136mm), engraved frontispiece portraits and lithographed view of Constantinople. (Portraits heavily spotted, one partially detached, occasional spotting of text.) Original maroon cloth gilt (recased with new endpapers, spines repaired and slightly worn, some sunfading). FIRST EDITION of 'a very interesting work ... with comments on the state of Greece under the Bavarians'. Atabey 1177 (this copy?); Blackmer 1611; Weber I, 345. (2)