With the rare supplement. A fascinating work, full of interesting detail, as are all Leake's works. Particular attention is paid to Mycenae and Tir...

Blackmer copy. 'First and apparently only edition. The map of Greece issued with this work is frequently missing, and despite the information on th...

'This report describes the activities of the Society of Dilettanti's second Ionian Mission, 1812-13, organized under the direction of William Gell...

Scarce. Kinneir had served in the Madras infantry and was later attached to Sir John Malcolm's mission in Persia in 1808-1809. In 1813 he set out ...

A scarce, well regarded translation of Pausanias, who provides us with the best guide to the Ancient Greeks and their beliefs. Translated by Thoma...

The privately printed true first edition. The rare privately printed edition, preceding the trade edition by twenty-one years. The text consists of...

A fascinating work, full of interesting detail, as are all Leake's works. Particular attention is paid to Mycenae and Tiryns, and the plates inclu...

Dallaway spent 18 months as chaplain with Liston's embassy to the Porte (1794-6). He travelled to Constantinople overland with Liston's entourage,...

Wittman was a member of the British military mission which joined the Turkish forces at Constantinople in 1799 and travelled overland to Egypt to ...

With four-sheet panorama of Athens. A handsomely bound set of Walpole's travels between 1803 and 1808 to which are added accounts by other travelle...

Dodwell made two journeys to Greece, one in company with Sir William Gell touring the Ionian Islands and the Troad. Later with the Italian Simone ...

The rare second panorama. A rare example, never bound, with wide margins.A fine panoramic view, entirely different from Mrs. Bracebridge's 1836 pan...

Scarce. Castlemaine was asked by Charles II to keep him informed of events in Europe whilst making a tour. Castelmaine reported to the King by let...

Castellan went out to the Levant as a draughtsman in 1796 with a French engineering mission led by Pierre Ferregau, who hoped to be awarded a cont...

This was the first detailed edition on Greece (previous editions were included Asia Minor, Turkey and the East). This edition was published at the...

First English edition. One of several novels by the French writer Jean de Préchac (d.1720) based on real historical figures. Kara Mustafa Pasha (d....

Inscribed presentation copy. Inscribed: Rev Dr Parr / From the Author/ June 1814. Samuel Parr (1747-1825) was a renowned figure in late 18th and ea...