May 01, 2014 - Sale 2348

Sale 2348 - Lot 158

Price Realized: $ 1,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
DRUMMOND, ALEXANDER. Travels through Different Cities of Germany, Italy, Greece, and Several Parts of Asia, as far as the Banks of the Euphrates. Edited by Tobias Smollett. 35 engraved plates and maps, including large folding map of Cyprus. [4], 311 pages. Folio, 356x237 mm, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked at an early date, worn overall, front cover detached; plates toned or foxed and offset, short clean tears in frontispiece, view of Aleppo, and maps of Cyprus and Syria. London: W. Strahan for the Author, 1754

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first edition, of an epistolary account of Drummond's 1744-50 travels, which included extended stays in Cyprus and Asia Minor. Blackmer 497.