TOZER, Henry Fanshawe.

Researches in the Highlands of Turkey;

Name: Researches in the Highlands of Turkey;
Brand: TOZER, Henry Fanshawe.
SKU: 122258
Price: 2065.00 USD
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including visits to Mount Ida, Athos, Olympus, and Pelion, to the Mirdite Albanians, and other remote tribes. With notes on the ballads, tales, and classical superstitions of the modern Greeks.

Stock Code 122258

London, Murray, 1869.

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Scarce, especially in such an unopened and unread condition. A versatile and hardy traveller, Tozer (1829-1916) made regular journeys in Greece and Turkey, which formed the subject of this, his major travel book in which he describes two arduous journeys from Constantinople to Salonika (taking in Mount Athos, which he climbed) across the Scardus and Bertiscus ranges, then further north into Montenegro and across the Mirdita country of central Albania.

First edition; 2 vols, 8vo (20 x 14.5 cm); 8 full-page engraved plates including frontispieces, 5 illustrations in text, large folding map, armorial bookplate to pastedowns, discreet stamp to endpaper of vol 1, largely unopened; publisher's original purple blind stamped cloth, gilt lettering to spines, spine a little faded, boards with a touch of rubbing, otherwise a near-fine copy; xii, 397; vii, 390 pp., 2 pages ads at end of each volume dated March 1869.

Blackmer 1669; not in Atabey.

Provenance

Provenance: Fothergill (bookplate); W.H. Smiths Library (stamp).

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