Lot 244
Greece and the Mediterranean
Collection of travel narratives and historical accounts in German and Scandinavian languages
£945
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 28 September 2022 from 10:00 BST
Description
[Asp, Pehr Olof von]. Resa i Levanten år 1796. Öfversättning från fransyskan af M. Hasselrot. Skara: F. J. Leverentz, 1805. First edition, 8vo (17 x 10cm), contemporary half sheep, 272 pp., browning,
Ukert, Friedrich August. Historisk-geografisk tafla af Grekland. Stockholm: Zacharias Haeggström, 1821. First edition in Swedish (first published in German as Gemaelde von Griechenland, 1810), 16mo (13.7 x 9cm), contemporary maroon half morocco, 6 aquatint plates;
Fenger, J. Ferdinand. Om det nygraeske Folk og Sprog. Erindringer fra en Reise i Graekenland i Aare 1831. Copenhagen: C. Graebe & Son, 1832. First edition, 8vo, original printed boards, 151 pp., edges untrimmed, spotting, ink-stamp ('Nyso Bibliothek', with coronet) to title-page;
Brøndsted, Peter Oluf. Reise i Graekenland i Aarene 1810-1813. Copenhagen: Samfundte til den Danske Literaturs Fremme, 1844. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo (19 x 11.7cm), contemporary marbled half roan, lithographic portrait frontispiece, folding map, browning;
[Sander, Heinrich]. Erinnerungen eines ehemaligen griechischen Offiziers. Darmstadt, L. Pabst, 1839. First edition, 8vo (17.8 x 10.8cm), contemporary red quarter morocco, bookplate of Wilhelm, Herzog zu Braunschweig, annotation by William St Clair on front free endpaper, 'From the library of Queen Frederika, with the bookplate of the Duke of Brunswick';
Münch, Ernst. Die Heerzüge des christlichen Europas wider die Osmanen, und die Versuche der Griechen zur Freiheit. Basel: in der Schweighauser'schen Buchhandlung, 1822-5. First edition, parts 1-4 of 5 in 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary boards;
Schömann, Georg Friedrich. De comitiis Atheniensium. Griefswald: Ernest Moritz, 1819. First edition, 8vo, contemporary sheep, armorial device to covers in blind, bookplates (Henry Pelham), spine defective, spotting;
Frommel, Carl Ludwig. Ansichten aus Griechenland. [No place, no publisher], c.1850. Oblong 4to, contemporary quarter calf, engraved title-page, 30 engraved plates each with descriptive text-leaf, bookplate (A. Pitlo);
and approx. 20 others similar
Footnote
Provenance: From the library of the late William St Clair, FBA, FRSL.
