£353
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs ft. the Library of the Late William St Clair Pt II | 712
Auction: 28 September 2022 at 11:00 BST
London: H. Colburn & R. Bentley, 1830. Second edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, hand-coloured frontispiece in volume 1, 3 folding plans and maps (the map of Albania in modern facsimile) and 11 engraved or aquatinted plates, contemporary diced calf, black morocco lettering-pieces, some slight spotting, lower joint of volume 2 splitting, chip to base of volume 1 spine
Note: '[The author] has inserted a great quantity of additional information, from his own journals... [and] by enlarging the second volume, he has been enabled to lay before the reader a complete narrative of the Life and Death of that extraordinary personage Ali Pasha of Ioannina, together with a concise account of the Revolution, in which he bore a distinguished part, and which has given independence to Greece' (from the Preface to the Second edition).
Provenance: From the library of the late William St Clair, FBA, FRSL.