[Rarebooks] FS: A TOUR TO THE EAST, IN THE YEARS 1763 AND 1764 by Baron Baltimore Calvert, 1767
Charles Agvent
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CALVERT, Frederick, 6th Baron Baltimore. A TOUR TO THE EAST, IN
THE YEARS 1763 AND 1764. WITH REMARKS ON THE CITY OF CONSTANTINOPLE
AND THE TURKS.... London: W. Richardson & S. Clark 1767. First
Edition. ALSO SELECT PIECES OF ORIENTAL WIT, POETRY AND WISDOM.
Octavo (4-1/4" x 7") bound in contemporary calf recently rebacked
with a new calf spine with gilt lettering and decorations; [1l], iv,
176 pages. Illustrated with an engraved title page, four full-page
engravings, and one very large (19-1/2" x 17-1/2") folding plan of
Constantinople. One of the engravings is of Whirling Dervishes in
action. Baltimore's travels took him from Italy through Greece to
Constantinople in 1763. The following year took him through Bulgaria,
Moldavia, Poland, and Germany until he eventually arrived in England.
The author was the last in the line of Barons Baltimore and a
descendent of the man after whom the city in Maryland is named. In
fact, though he never once set foot in it, Calvert owned Maryland
until his death in Naples in 1771. He willed the colony to a son, but
the American Revolution got in the way. His depictions into the life
and customs of the lands he traversed are vivid, just what one would
expect from someone kicked out of Constantinople after being accused
of keeping a private harem. Public library bookplate on front
pastedown, library ink stamp on title page, and three occasions of
ink numbers in the text. The last copy to sell at auction was in 2002
for several hundred dollars more than ours. Clean, close to Fine copy
of a scarce book. $2000.00
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