Hobhouse, John Cam, 1st Baron Broughton
£1,000
Auction: 10 June 2009 at 12:00 BST
Description
A journey through Albania and other provinces of Turkey in Europe and Asia to Constantinople during the years 1809 and 1810. London: James Cawthorn, 1813. First edition, 4to, engraved frontispiece, 2 folding maps, 17 hand-coloured aquatint plates, 2 facsimile plates & 2 leaves of engraved music, contemporary tree calf, spine gilt, red morocco lettering piece, lacking pp.iii-vi, frontispiece torn and laid down with marginal loss, title and [a4] slightly soiled and slightly frayed, a few contents leaves slightly loose, title strengthened in extreme inner margin, map of Albania repaired on verso and split at one fold, marginal tear to plate at p.133, occasional light spotting or dust-soiling but generally clean, joints splitting
Footnote
Note: Blackmer 821; cf. Abbey, Travel 202; Atabey 584