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CURZON, ROBERT. Visits to Monasteries in The Levant. Wood-engraved title vignette and 16 wood-engraved plates. 8vo, original brown cloth gilt, rebacked retaining original backstrip, spine ends frayed but with a few minor reinforcements, original red-coated endpapers printed with advertisements; scattered foxing; early owner's book label on front pastedown and signatures on endpaper, hinges cracked. London: John Murray, 1849
first edition of "one of the most charming travel books ever written"--DNB. Curzon, who was appointed a commissioner for defining the borders of Turkey and Persia, travelled extensively in Egypt, Palestine and Greece, collecting manuscripts from monasteries from 1833-37.
