Records of travels in Turkey, Greece, &.
and of a cruise in the Black Sea, with the Capitan Pasha, in the years 1829, 1830, and 1831.
Stock Code 102693
London, Saunders & Otley, 1833
Original price
$1,563.00
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Original price
$1,563.00
Original price
$1,563.00
$1,563.00
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$1,563.00
Current price
$1,563.00
With a hand-coloured view of Odessa. 'Adolphus Slade was a naval officer who spent much of his life in Turkish service. Present at the Battle of Navarino in 1827, he travelled extensively in the Ottoman Empire and made friends with the Kaptan Pasha, head of the Turkish Navy' (Koç).
Second edition, 2 vols bound in one, 8vo, xvi, 519; viii, 513 pp., folding map (trimmed close), 2 hand-coloured aquatint frontispieces, lithograph plate, folding facsimile, later calf gilt, morocco label, a very good copy.
Second edition, 2 vols bound in one, 8vo, xvi, 519; viii, 513 pp., folding map (trimmed close), 2 hand-coloured aquatint frontispieces, lithograph plate, folding facsimile, later calf gilt, morocco label, a very good copy.
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