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Auction archive: Lot number 3085

LEAKE, WILLIAM MARTIN. 1777-1860.

Estimate
US$0
Price realised:
US$3,500
Auction archive: Lot number 3085

LEAKE, WILLIAM MARTIN. 1777-1860.

Estimate
US$0
Price realised:
US$3,500
Beschreibung:

Travels in Northern Greece. London: J. Rodwell, 1835. 4 volumes. 8vo. [iv]-xii, 527, [1]; vii, [i], 643, [1]; vii, [i], 578, [2, blank]; vi, 588, [46] pp. Including errata leaf and directions to binder in vol 4. With 10 engraved maps and charts (many folding), and 44 engraved plates. Half-calf and marbled boards, spines gilt. New end-papers, first and last leaves browned at edges. Provenance: P.G. Skinos (bookplates); ex-library stamps. FIRST EDITION. "An account of four journeys (not consecutive) carried out from December, 1804, to January, 1810, covering Macedonia, Epirus, Thessaly and Boeotia, in fact all of mainland Greece except for Attica. Volume 1 includes a biography of Ali Pasha ... An important and valuable work" (Blackmer 975). Atabey 692; Hopkirk 556; Weber 1:233.

Auction archive: Lot number 3085
Auction:
Datum:
25 Jun 2013
Auction house:
Bonhams London
New York 580 Madison Avenue New York NY 10022 Tel: +1 212 644 9001 Fax : +1 212 644 9009 info.us@bonhams.com
Beschreibung:

Travels in Northern Greece. London: J. Rodwell, 1835. 4 volumes. 8vo. [iv]-xii, 527, [1]; vii, [i], 643, [1]; vii, [i], 578, [2, blank]; vi, 588, [46] pp. Including errata leaf and directions to binder in vol 4. With 10 engraved maps and charts (many folding), and 44 engraved plates. Half-calf and marbled boards, spines gilt. New end-papers, first and last leaves browned at edges. Provenance: P.G. Skinos (bookplates); ex-library stamps. FIRST EDITION. "An account of four journeys (not consecutive) carried out from December, 1804, to January, 1810, covering Macedonia, Epirus, Thessaly and Boeotia, in fact all of mainland Greece except for Attica. Volume 1 includes a biography of Ali Pasha ... An important and valuable work" (Blackmer 975). Atabey 692; Hopkirk 556; Weber 1:233.

Auction archive: Lot number 3085
Auction:
Datum:
25 Jun 2013
Auction house:
Bonhams London
New York 580 Madison Avenue New York NY 10022 Tel: +1 212 644 9001 Fax : +1 212 644 9009 info.us@bonhams.com
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