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[GREECE and TURKEY] Seven works on travel in the region.

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Lot 94
[GREECE and TURKEY] Seven works on travel in the region.
Comprises YEMENIZ, EUGENE. Voyage dans le royaume de Grèce... précédé de considérations sur la génie de la Grèce, par Victor de Laprade. Paris: E. Dentu, 1854. First edition, an inscribed copy (by Yemeniz) in fine half green morocco; ANSTED, D.T. The Ionian Islands in the Year 1863. London: 1863. School gift binding of green calf, inscribed in gilt; DE TOTT, FRANCOIS, Baron. Memoirs ... containing the State of the Turkish Empire and the Crimea, during the Late War with Russia. London: 1785. Two volumes, period full calf; ETON, W. A survey of the Turkish Empire... London: 1809. Period calf; GARNETT, LUCY M.J. The Women of Turkey and their Folk-Lore. London: 1890. Two volumes, publisher's cloth; COX, SAMUEL. Diversions of a diplomat in Turkey. New York: 1887. Publisher's cloth; and CESNOLA, LOUIS PALMA DI. Cyprus... New York: 1878. Publisher's cloth. Generally attractive copies, some housed in protective slipcases.
The first work is an important travel book on the Greece written shortly after the country achieved its nationhood, and is very scarce inscribed. Blackmer 1855; Weber I, 503

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