£756
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | 739
Auction: 21 June 2023 at 11:00 BST
Chandler, Richard. Travels in Greece, or an Account of a Tour made at the Expense of the Society of Dilettanti. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1776. First edition, 4to, 4, [xiv], [2 - errata], 304; 7 engraved maps and plans, 2 folding, contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt, folding map torn without loss, head of spine slightly rubbed;
Fellows, Charles. An Account of Discoveries in Lycia, being a Journal kept during a Second Excursion in Asia Minor. London: J. Murray, 1841. First edition, 8vo, lithographed frontispiece, 2 maps and 36 lithograph or etched plates (including 2 folding, 1 double-page, 1 hand-coloured & the unlisted plate at p.367), lacking boards;
Thiersch, Friedrich Wilhelm von. De l'état actuel de la Grèce et des moyens d'arriver à sa restauration. Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, 1833. First edition, 2 volumes in 1, 8vo, contemporary quarter calf, spine gilt, some light spotting [Blackmer 1652];
Hellenic Journal. Plates from the Hellenic Journal 1921-1936. 4to, specially bound volume of all the plates from the Hellenic Journal of 1921-1936 depicting Greek marble statues, heads, reliefs, vases, bronze statuettes, pottery cups, alabaster bowls, bronze sculptures &c., numerous plates, some coloured, fine blue morocco gilt, spine gilt;
Mahaffy, J.P. Greek pictures. 1890. 4to, plates, illustrations, original cloth, lightly rubbed
Note: Thiersch. An important work by one of the most important Bavarian philhellenes who in 1831 went to Greece as an unofficial agent of the Bavarian court to promote the nomination of Otho as King of the Hellenes.