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BALTIMORE, Frederick Calvert 6th Baron. A Tour to the East in the years 1763 and 1764. With remarks on the City of Constantinople and the Turks, London: by W. Richardson and S. Clark, 1767.
8°. Engraved title and 4 plates after Francis Smith. (Lacking the plan of Constantinople, some offsetting onto text.) Finely bound in contemporary English red morocco, covers with a wide gilt roll-tooled border of roundels and fleurons, spine in 6 compartments with raised bands, green morocco lettering-piece in one, the others tooled with acorns and roundels (slight scuff marks and ink stains), spot-marbled endpapers, g.e.
FIRST EDITION. Lord Baltimore, whose reputed income was £30,000 a year, spent the winter of 1762-63 in Italy before embarking at Naples for Constantiniople on 4 May. He returned to London on 31 October 1764. In 1771 he came back to Italy, reached Naples in July or August, and died there on 14 September, leaving behind seven mistresses in his house in Naples. Ingamells records that "Winckelmann, his cicerone in Rome, was fascinated by this strange, jaded man, who inspected the Villa Borghese in ten minutes and 'cared for nothing except St. Peter's and the Apollo Belvedere ...'" Blackmer 272; Ingamells p. 46; Lowndes I, 106.
[CAMPBELL, John.] The Travels and Adventures of Edward Brown containing his observations on France and Italy, his account of the Isle of Malta; his remarks in his journies thro' the lower and upper Egypt, together with a brief description of the Abyssinian Empire. London: by J. Applebee for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch [and others], 1739, 8°. (Rather browned, some soiling and staining.) Modern calf-backed boards. Blackmer 278: "This purports to be an account of travels made c. 1670. In fact it is not an actual account of travels but a compilation ... connected by a thread of fictitious autobiography. It was the first of Campbell's works to attract attention." Pine-Coffin 7391. (2)
8°. Engraved title and 4 plates after Francis Smith. (Lacking the plan of Constantinople, some offsetting onto text.) Finely bound in contemporary English red morocco, covers with a wide gilt roll-tooled border of roundels and fleurons, spine in 6 compartments with raised bands, green morocco lettering-piece in one, the others tooled with acorns and roundels (slight scuff marks and ink stains), spot-marbled endpapers, g.e.
FIRST EDITION. Lord Baltimore, whose reputed income was £30,000 a year, spent the winter of 1762-63 in Italy before embarking at Naples for Constantiniople on 4 May. He returned to London on 31 October 1764. In 1771 he came back to Italy, reached Naples in July or August, and died there on 14 September, leaving behind seven mistresses in his house in Naples. Ingamells records that "Winckelmann, his cicerone in Rome, was fascinated by this strange, jaded man, who inspected the Villa Borghese in ten minutes and 'cared for nothing except St. Peter's and the Apollo Belvedere ...'" Blackmer 272; Ingamells p. 46; Lowndes I, 106.
[CAMPBELL, John.] The Travels and Adventures of Edward Brown containing his observations on France and Italy, his account of the Isle of Malta; his remarks in his journies thro' the lower and upper Egypt, together with a brief description of the Abyssinian Empire. London: by J. Applebee for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch [and others], 1739, 8°. (Rather browned, some soiling and staining.) Modern calf-backed boards. Blackmer 278: "This purports to be an account of travels made c. 1670. In fact it is not an actual account of travels but a compilation ... connected by a thread of fictitious autobiography. It was the first of Campbell's works to attract attention." Pine-Coffin 7391. (2)