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PATON, Andrew Archibald.

Highlands and islands of the Adriatic,

Highlands and islands of the Adriatic,

including Dalmatia, Croatia, and the Southern Provinces of the Austrian Empire.

Stock Code 110974

London, Chapman and Hall, 1849

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Andrew Paton, author and diplomat, spent much of his career travelling in Eastern European states, Egypt and Syria. The present work resulted from Paton's unofficial employment by Sir Robert Gordon, Viennese ambassador, who in 1846, commissioned the author to report on Austrian ports in the Adriatic.

First edition; 2 volumes, 8vo (23 x 18 cm); wood-engraved title vignettes, 10 tinted lithographed plates by and after A. Maclure, folding engraved map, folding lithographed plan; publisher's embossed cloth, gilt lettering to spine, cloth a little mottled, otherwise a very good set; xxii, 314; viii, 308 pp.

Abbey Travel, 44.

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