[Rarebooks] FS: Chandler's travels in Asia Minor and Greece. 2 vols. London: 1776

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(TRAVEL) Chandler, Richard. TRAVELS IN ASIA MINOR: or an Account of a Tour Made at the Expense of the Society of Diletanti. The Second Edition: London: Sold by J. Dodsley et al. 1776. Lg. 4to. xiii,(3),283pp. Plus 1 page of ads. Illustrated with a large copper engraved folding map of the Aegean Sea and Part of Asia Minor. [OFFERED WITH]: Chandler, Richard. TRAVELS IN GREECE: or an Account of a Tour Made at the Expense of the Society of Diletanti. Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press... 1776. First edition. Lg. 4to. 4,xiv,(2),304pp. Complete with a copper engraved folding map of Greece and the Peloponnesus and 6 other engraved charts and plans (2 folding). Both volumes are uniformly bound in cont. mottled calf, elaborately gilt tooled spines with red & black morocco labels ("Volume I" and "Volume II"), spines lightly rubbed. With the same engraved armorial bookplate on both front pastedowns. Slight browning at outer edges of the first volume's title
 page, otherwise a fine "set" of the two titles.    $2,750.00 (trade discount allowed)
Chandler (1738-1810) was a classical antiquary and traveler. These two books, taken from Chandler's journal, were separately published, but practically form a single work, and it was, in fact, published as a 2 volume set in 1817.

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