Travels and Researches in Crete.

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SPRATT, Thomas Abel Brimage.

Travels and Researches in Crete.

Travels and Researches in Crete.

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Stock Code 106406

London, Van Voorst, 1865

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One of the most important accounts of Crete. Captain Spratt, Director if the Mediterranean Survey since 1851, published in this work 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 volumes, 8vo, xii, [ii], 387; ix, [ii], 435 pp. 1 page ad at end, 2 folding coloured maps, 2 plates of inscriptions, 1 plate of coins, 14 tinted lithograph plates (including a folding panorama), 24 lithographed illustrations on india paper mounted in the letterpress, original brown cloth gilt, gilt roundels to upper cover, a very good set.

Blackmer 1590.
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