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First edition of Spratt's Travels and Researches in Crete, one of the most important accounts of the island.
First edition of Spratt's Travels and Researches in Crete, one of the most important accounts of the island.
First edition of Spratt's Travels and Researches in Crete, one of the most important accounts of the island.
First edition of Spratt's Travels and Researches in Crete, one of the most important accounts of the island.
First edition of Spratt's Travels and Researches in Crete, one of the most important accounts of the island.

SPRATT, Thomas Abel Brimage.

Travels and Researches in Crete.

London, Van Voorst, 1865.

$3,416.00
$3,416.00

Travels and Researches in Crete.

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One of the most important accounts of Crete. Captain Spratt, Director of the Mediterranean Survey since 1851, published here a detailed account of the archaeology and ethnology of Crete. It also comprises, in the appendix, a comparison between the Cretan dialect and Modern Greek, by Viscount Strangford.

First edition; 2 vols, 8vo (23 x 15.5 cm); 14 tinted lithograph plates including 2 frontispieces, of which one folding panorama with small split to crease, 2 folding coloured maps, 2 plates of inscriptions, 1 plate of coins, 24 lithographed illustrations on India paper mounted in the letterpress, armorial bookplate to pastedowns; publisher's original cloth, gilt roundels to upper boards, gilt lettering to spine, a near-fine set; xii, [ii], 387; ix, [ii], 435 pp.

Blackmer 1590.

Stock code 116488

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First edition of Spratt's Travels and Researches in Crete, one of the most important accounts of the island.

Travels and Researches in Crete.

$3,416.00
$3,416.00

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