Travels and Discoveries in The Levant
de Newton, C. T. [Charles Thomas 1816-1894]
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good. Hardcovers; Complete plates and Maps.
- Librería
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London: Day & Son, Limited, 1865. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good Hardcovers. Very Good. Hardcovers; Complete plates and Maps..
Original blind-stamped green cloth, 2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. xiv, [2], 360; 2 p.l., [vi]-xiv, [2], 275. with half-titles. Properly illustrated with 12 engraved and lithographed maps and plans including a map frontispiece in each volume (most folding)
Condition:
Vol. I: light rubbing to covers, corners worn, shaken, binding split at center signatures, which are nearly detached; foxing mostly to front endpapers, frontispiece, first few pages, back endpapers and last few pages. Owner's labels on front and back pastedowns.
Vol. II: light rubbing to covers, corners worn, binding split at about three signatures in, and also about six in, with those signatures/pages nearly detached. Endpapers, frontispiece map, title page, and back endpapers with considerable foxing and toning, light foxing throughout. Owner's labels on back pastedowns.
Illustrations:
12 mounted albumen prints by Francis Bedford of antiquities from drawings by Mrs. C.T.Newton,
17 plates including engravings after photographs by B. Spackman, etchings by W. Severn after photos by D.E. Colnaghi and drawings by Mrs. C.T.Newton, and aquatints by W.J.Alais after photos by D.E.Colnaghi and B.Spackman and drawings by A.Berg.
38 wood-engraved text illustrations.
Volume I's frontispiece is a map of Rhodes and Volume II's is the Coast of Caria.
Original blind-stamped green cloth, 2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. xiv, [2], 360; 2 p.l., [vi]-xiv, [2], 275. with half-titles. Properly illustrated with 12 engraved and lithographed maps and plans including a map frontispiece in each volume (most folding)
Condition:
Vol. I: light rubbing to covers, corners worn, shaken, binding split at center signatures, which are nearly detached; foxing mostly to front endpapers, frontispiece, first few pages, back endpapers and last few pages. Owner's labels on front and back pastedowns.
Vol. II: light rubbing to covers, corners worn, binding split at about three signatures in, and also about six in, with those signatures/pages nearly detached. Endpapers, frontispiece map, title page, and back endpapers with considerable foxing and toning, light foxing throughout. Owner's labels on back pastedowns.
Illustrations:
12 mounted albumen prints by Francis Bedford of antiquities from drawings by Mrs. C.T.Newton,
17 plates including engravings after photographs by B. Spackman, etchings by W. Severn after photos by D.E. Colnaghi and drawings by Mrs. C.T.Newton, and aquatints by W.J.Alais after photos by D.E.Colnaghi and B.Spackman and drawings by A.Berg.
38 wood-engraved text illustrations.
Volume I's frontispiece is a map of Rhodes and Volume II's is the Coast of Caria.
An account of the English archaeologist's travels and discoveries in the Levant and Asia Minor from 1852 until 1859. The work provides details regarding Newton's studies and excavations in Calymnos; when the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, was excavated; Cnidus, Branchidae and Constantinople. In 1861 he was appointed to the newly created post of keeper of Roman and Greek antiquities at the British Museum.
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- Librería
- Blind Horse Books [ABAA - FABA] (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 16027
- Título
- Travels and Discoveries in The Levant
- Autor
- Newton, C. T. [Charles Thomas 1816-1894]
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Very Good Hardcovers
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good. Hardcovers; Complete plates and Maps.
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition, First Printing
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- Day & Son, Limited
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1865
- Palabras clave
- Middle East; Archeology; Asia Minor; Greece; Mediterranean; Travelogue
- Atención
- Puede que se trate de un conjunto de varios volúmenes y requiera de gastos de envío adicionales.
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