$5,612
London: T. Bensley for R. Bowyer, 1810. Elephant folio, quarter leather, gilt decorations to spine, with binder's instructions included at the end. First edition. Complete with 71 hand-colored aquatint plates, including folding panoramic view of Constantinople and views made by Mayer in the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean, including Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Constantinople, Ephesus, Latachia, Tortosa, Samos and Jerusalem. Wear to boards with some fading and dampstaining to cloth; rubbing to leather spine; slight browning to interior and soiling to margins, not affecting plates; light foxing to the text and three plates; otherwise plates are bright and interior is clean.
Auctioneer:
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
Date:
2009-07-28
