[Rarebooks] FS: Calvert's Travels from Italy to Constantinople, 1767, illustrated

[Charles Agvent]

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 descendant 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. Clean, close to Fine copy of a scarce book. $2,000.00	

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