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Travels in Europe, Asia Minor, and Arabia.

Stock Code 97836

London, Cadell, 1805

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Holland House copy. Griffiths travelled out to Constantinople with the philosopher and social reformer Jeremy Bentham in 1785, before going on to travel in the Levant disguised as a Greek. He was joined on his journey by David Hays who died on the journey, and this event is depicted in a folding plate. Griffiths records his travels through Constantinople, Scutari, Mytelene, Chios, Smyrna, Aleppo, Basrah, and down the Persian Gulf to Muscat.

First edition, 4to, xx, 396pp., half-title, engraved frontispiece, large folding map, 4 engraved plates, contemporary sprinkled calf gilt, rebacked to style, red morocco lettering-piece, a very good copy.

Atabey 530; Blackmer 755.
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Provenance: Holland House (armorial bookplate).

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Travels in Europe, Asia Minor, and Arabia.

GRIFFITHS, Julius.

Stock code: 97836

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