Lot 239
Greece
Collection of works
£630
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 28 September 2022 from 10:00 BST
Description
Blunt, Sir Henry. A Voyage into the Levant, being a brief Relation of a Journey... into Dalmatia, Sclavonia, Bosna, Hungary, Macedonia, Thessaly, Thrace, Rhodes. London: W. Crook, 1671. 8th edition, 12mo, 165. [iii], disbound, a few running headlines slightly trimmed;
Society of Dilettanti. Report... appointed by the Society to Superintend the Expedition lately sent by them to Greece and Ionia. London, 1814. 4to, original wrappers, sewn, wrappers detached;
House of Commons. Further Papers respecting the Excavations at Budrum and Cnidus. Lond, 1859. Folio, 3 hand-coloured folding plans, contemporary half vellum, some spotting;
Falkener, Edward. Daedalus, or the Causes and Principles of the Excellence of Greek Sculpture. London, 1860. 8vo, photographic and hand-coloured engraved plates, original pictorial cloth, neatly rebacked retaining original spine;
Comstock, John L. History of the Greek Revolution. New York, 1829. 12mo, 2 folding plates, one torn without loss, one with loss, contemporary calf slightly rubbed, somewhat spotted;
Smith, Agnes. Glimpses of Greek Life and Scenery. London, 1884. 8vo, plates, original pictorial cloth gilt;
Mahaffy, J.P. Greek Pictures. 1890. 4to, original pictorial cloth;
Payne, Humfry and Gerard Mackworth-Young. Archaic Marble Sculptures from the Acropolis. 1950, folio, dust-wrapper;
Ferguson, James. The Parthenon. 1883. 4to, original cloth;
and various others, later; sold not subject to return
Footnote
Provenance: From the library of the late William St Clair, FBA, FRSL.
