SPL Hand Coloured Rare Book Collection Featuring Norman R Bobins

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LAURENT, Peter Edmund.
Recollections of a Classical Tour through the various parts of Greece, Turkey and Italy made in the years 1818-19.

Starting from Venice, Laurent visited Chios, Constantinople, Athens, the Peloponnese, and Corfu. The appendix consists of the Constitution of the Ionian Islands. This account includes descriptions of Corfu .

Published
London: Whittaker, 1821.
References
Abbey Travel 1 204; Atabey 680; Blackmer 959; Tooley 293; Bobins 1093.
Plates
4
Binding/Size
M=4to
Value
0-5000
Published
London: Whittaker, 1821.
Ref
5296

4to, four hand-coloured aquatint plates. Quarter green cloth-backed boards with gilt letters to spine. Uncut, foxing throughout. Coloured plates in order: 1. Frontispiece. Turkish Women Travelling. 2. Officer of Janissaries / Greek Sailor. 3. A Turkish Girl / Greek Ladies at Constantinople. 4. Albanians in The Morea.