Lot 280
Hughes, Rev. Thomas Smart
Auction: 13 January 2010 at 11:00 GMT
£1,750
Description
Travels in Sicily, Greece and Albania. London: J. Mawman, 1820. First edition, 4to, 2 volumes, [xii, [2], 532; viii, 393], 3 maps and plans [2 folding and backed on linen], 12 engraved and aquatinted plates, 19th century calf gilt by Robert Seton, Northern Light Board gilt stamp to backstrip, black and brown labels, interiors clean (2)
Footnote
Note: A passionate philhellene, Hughes travelled in the Levant as tutor to Richard Townley Parker. Much of the present work is devoted to Epirus, where Hughes and Parker spent two months in the company of the architect Charles Cockerell, after whose drawings many of the plates are engraved. Blackmer 842; Abbey, Travel 203; Contominas 339; Weber I, 86; Atabey 599