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Auction archive: Lot number 14

Gell (Sir William). The Itinerary of Greece, 1st edition, 1819

Estimate
£200 - £300
ca. US$277 - US$416
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 14

Gell (Sir William). The Itinerary of Greece, 1st edition, 1819

Estimate
£200 - £300
ca. US$277 - US$416
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

Gell (Sir William). The Itinerary of Greece; containing One Hundred Routes in Attica, Boeotia, Phocis, Locris, and Thessaly, 1st edition, London: Rodwell and Martin, 1819, engraved folding map frontispiece, toning, a few marks, contemporary half calf, label renewed, 8vo (18.6 x 10.8 cm) (Qty: 1) Provenance: 1) Robert Finch (1783-1830), antiquary, connoisseur of the arts, and 'pretentious ass' (ODNB), with his bookplate; bequeathed by him to the Taylor Institution, University of Oxford (relevant bequest label and deaccession stamp to front pastedown). 2) Malcolm Rogers CBE FSA (1948-), British art historian and director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston from 1994 to 2015. Blackmer 664. Uncommon. 'The work is not to be confused with Gell's Itinerary of Greece, 1810, which is a description of the Argolid only' (Blackmer).

Auction archive: Lot number 14
Auction:
Datum:
7 Apr 2021 - 8 Apr 2021
Auction house:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers, Mallard House
Broadway Lane, South Cerney, Nr Cirencester
Gloucestershire, GL75UQ
United Kingdom
info@dominicwinter.co.uk
+44 (0)1285 860006
+44 (0)1285 862461
Beschreibung:

Gell (Sir William). The Itinerary of Greece; containing One Hundred Routes in Attica, Boeotia, Phocis, Locris, and Thessaly, 1st edition, London: Rodwell and Martin, 1819, engraved folding map frontispiece, toning, a few marks, contemporary half calf, label renewed, 8vo (18.6 x 10.8 cm) (Qty: 1) Provenance: 1) Robert Finch (1783-1830), antiquary, connoisseur of the arts, and 'pretentious ass' (ODNB), with his bookplate; bequeathed by him to the Taylor Institution, University of Oxford (relevant bequest label and deaccession stamp to front pastedown). 2) Malcolm Rogers CBE FSA (1948-), British art historian and director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston from 1994 to 2015. Blackmer 664. Uncommon. 'The work is not to be confused with Gell's Itinerary of Greece, 1810, which is a description of the Argolid only' (Blackmer).

Auction archive: Lot number 14
Auction:
Datum:
7 Apr 2021 - 8 Apr 2021
Auction house:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers, Mallard House
Broadway Lane, South Cerney, Nr Cirencester
Gloucestershire, GL75UQ
United Kingdom
info@dominicwinter.co.uk
+44 (0)1285 860006
+44 (0)1285 862461
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