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Travels and Researches in Crete.

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Travels and Researches in Crete.

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Stock Code 106406

London, Van Voorst, 1865

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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Shapero Rare Books is an internationally renowned dealer in antiquarian & rare books and works on paper.

Our Bookshop and Gallery can be found in the heart of Mayfair at 106 New Bond Street, where most of our stock is available to view and on public display.

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Travels and Researches in Crete.

SPRATT, Thomas Abel Brimage.

Stock code: 106406

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