Levant.- Hobhouse (John Cam, 1st Baron Broughton) A Journey through Albania...to Constantinople, first edition, engraved frontispiece, 2 folding maps, 2 facsimiles, 2 plates of music, sepia plan and 17 hand-coloured aquatints (7 folding or double-page), occasional offsetting, contemporary russia, gilt, spine faded, g.e., [Abbey, Travel 202; Atabey 584], 4to, 1813. ⁂ Excellent copy of Hobhouse's important account of his journey with his friend Lord Byron. "This work is of great interest not only for the light it sheds on that journey, but for the mass of information Hobhouse provides, in particular on the court and character of Ali Pasha." (Atabey)
Levant.- Hobhouse (John Cam, 1st Baron Broughton) A Journey through Albania...to Constantinople, first edition, engraved frontispiece, 2 folding maps, 2 facsimiles, 2 plates of music, sepia plan and 17 hand-coloured aquatints (7 folding or double-page), occasional offsetting, contemporary russia, gilt, spine faded, g.e., [Abbey, Travel 202; Atabey 584], 4to, 1813. ⁂ Excellent copy of Hobhouse's important account of his journey with his friend Lord Byron. "This work is of great interest not only for the light it sheds on that journey, but for the mass of information Hobhouse provides, in particular on the court and character of Ali Pasha." (Atabey)
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