Oct 27, 2020 - Sale 2549

Sale 2549 - Lot 220

Price Realized: $ 2,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
Porter, Robert Ker (1772-1842)
Travels in Georgia, Persia, Armenia, Ancient Babylonia during the Years 1817, 1818, 1819, and 1820.

London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, 1821-1822.

Two large quarto volumes; volume one illustrated with forty-two full-page plates; four colored plates, full-page; and fourteen folding plates (sixty in total); volume two illustrated with twenty-three full-page plates, one colored plate, five folding plates, and one large folding map (thirty in total); for a grand total of ninety plates throughout both volumes; bound in full uniform modern russet morrocco, tooled and lettered in gilt, some foxing to contents, 10 1/2 x 8 1/4 in. (2)

Abbey, Travel 359; Atabey 976; Ghani p.304; Weber I, 104; Wilson p.177.