Lot 413
Wittman, William
Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 26 May 2010 at 12:00 BST
£563
Description
Travels in Turkey, Asia-Minor, Syria and across the desert into Egypt during the years 1799, 1800 and 1801. London: Richard Phillips, 1803. First edition, 4to, [xvi], 595, folding frontispiece, 20 plates (16 hand coloured costume plates), and 2 maps (one folding), lacking plate 7 of Jaffa, 19th century calf gilt, Northern Light Board gilt stamp to backstrip, some foxing to frontispiece, offsetting from plates to text, folding map repaired and with small tear
Footnote
Provenance: To be sold on behalf of the Northern Lighthouse Heritage Trust.