[Rarebooks] FS: Wittman, William. TRAVELS IN TURKEY, ASIA-MINOR, SYRIA AND ACROSS THE DESERT INTO EGYPT. 1803

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William Wittman.  TRAVELS IN TURKEY, ASIA-MINOR, SYRIA AND ACROSS THE 
DESERT INTO EGYPT during the years 1799, 1800, and 1801, in Company 
with the Turkish Army, and the British Military Mission. To Which are 
Annexed, Observations on the Plague, and on the Diseases Prevalent in 
Turkey, and a Meteorological Journal.  London: Richard Phillips, 
1803.  4to.   xvi+595+[1] pp publisher's advert.  With folding 
frontis, 16 hand-coloured costume plates, 5 views on 4 full-page 
plates, 2 engraved maps (one coloured, the other folding) & large 
engraved Turkish Firman or Passport plate.  (Illustrations correspond 
with Direction to the Binder for Placing the Plates).  Some repairs 
to folding plates and small chip from foredge of plate XV.  Moderate 
to light foxing on most plates.  Full calf with gilt stamped rule to 
boards.  Rebacked, probably early-mid 20th c.   Five raised bands, 
blind tooled decoration between the raised bands and leather title 
label with lettering in gilt.  Sprinkled edges.  Corners rubbed, else 
a very good and handsome copy.              CDN $3000.00

A travelogue with an eye toward the medical conditions encountered 
along the way, this rare book sheds light on western Asia from a 
unique vantage-point  It allowed Whittman to observe the manners, 
customs and habits of the Turkish nation, not only in peace, but in 
war.  In addition to the sights and monuments of that world, Wittman 
writes about the common people and the natural world. Includes a 
journey through Palestine and into Egypt. Wittman concludes his log 
with details of the trek through Germany and back to England.

William Wittman (d. 1815) was a medical doctor and a member of the 
Royal College of Surgeons in London.


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