[Rarebooks] FS: Baron Baltimore's Tour of Constantinople and the East, 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. ALSO SELECT PIECES OF ORIENTAL WIT, POETRY AND WISDOM. London: W. 
Richardson & S. Clark, 1767. First Edition. 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. Blackmer 272. No other copy currently on 
the market and the only to appear at auction in the last decade or so 
lacked one plate and fetched a significantly higher price. 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.

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.         $2,000.00

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