Researches in the Highlands of Turkey; including visits to Mount Ida, Athos, Olympus, and Pelion, to the Mirdite Albanians, and other remote tribes. With notes on the ballads, tales, and classical superstitions of the modern Greeks.

TOZER, Henry Fanshawe.

Edité par London Murray, 1869

First edition; 2 vols, 8vo (20 x 14.5 cm); 8 full-page engraved plates including frontispieces, 5 illustrations in text, large folding map, armorial bookplate to pastedowns, discreet stamp to endpaper of vol. I, largely unopened; publisher's original purple blind stamped cloth, gilt lettering to spines, spine a little faded, boards with a touch of rubbing, otherwise a near-fine copy; xii, 397; vii, 390 pp., 2 pages ads at end of each volume dated March 1869. Scarce, especially in an unopened and unread condition as here. A versatile and hardy traveller, Tozer (1829-1916) made regular journeys in Greece and Turkey, which formed the subject of this, his major travel book in which he describes two arduous journeys from Constantinople to Salonika (taking in Mount Athos, which he climbed) across the Scardus and Bertiscus ranges, then further north into Montenegro and across the Mirdita country of central Albania. Blackmer 1669; not in Atabey. N° de réf. du vendeur 122258

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Researches in the Highlands of Turkey; ...
Éditeur : London Murray
Date d'édition : 1869
Reliure : Couverture rigide
Edition : Edition originale