The Middle East & The Levant

Second edition, 4to, engraved portrait frontispiece of Pardoe, additional engraved title, engraved map and 85 plates, original blue cloth gilt, gilt pictorial vignette to upper cover, all edges gilt, light spotting to frontispiece and engraved title and occasionally elsewhere, generally a clean crisp example.

First edition, folio (47 x 37.7 cm), title-page and 12 magnificent hand-coloured aquatint plates by R. Havell after Cartwright, plate of Ali Pacha mounted within ruled border, contemporary dark blue polished half calf gilt over cloth boards, lettered in gilt to upper cover, occasional light marginal soiling and spotting, rubbed.

First editon. 2 volumes (the second containing 2 parts), folio (41 x 26 cm), engraved vignettes on titles, engraved dedication in volume II and 178 numbered plates, complete (volume 1 contains 75 plates, numbers 1-32 and 34-76 (plate 33 was never issued), plate 76 is not called for in the list of plates but is referred to in the text; volume II contains 103 engraved plates, a few folding, contemporary calf gilt, neat repairs to joints and extremities, lightly rubbed, an excellent example.