Eothen, or Traces of Travel, brought home From The East.
London. John Ollivier. 1845. Hardcover. 8vo, 21.2cm, Second Edition, xi,418p., with folding hand coloured lithographed pate and 1 hand colour plate, later dark green calf, raised bands, gilt titles and center panel device decorations in the panels, green cloth boards, marbled endpapers and edges, a very good to fine attractively bound copy (ho2.1). ~ A incisive Victorian travel book, his journey in 1834 35, took him through Turkey and Constantinople to Smyrna, Cyprus, the Black Sea, Jerusalem, Cairo (and the Plague), Suez, Gaza, Nablous and Damascus, including a chapter about Lady Hester Stanhope. The book remains a classic of Middle East travel. Item #35763
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