[Rarebooks] fa: EOTHEN or TRACES OF TRAVEL BROUGHT HOME FROM THE EAST Alexander Kinglake 1844

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

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[Alexander William Kinglake:] Eothen, or Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East. London: John Ollivier, 59, Pall Mall, 1844. FIRST EDITION. Tall 8vo (22.5 cm), untrimmed, in full polished calf by Riviere & Son with gilt-tooled borders, spine compartments and dentelles, top page edges gilt; [2], xi, [1], 418 pp.; with the half-title, folding hand-colored frontispiece and one colored plate (complete). Abbey, Travel 362.

With the original publisher's pictorial cloth covers and spine bound in at the rear. Rubbing to the joints and extremities, a touch of sunning to the upper front board; half-title with a small chip from the fore-edge, title-page with two small nicks to the edges; frontispiece with old paper repair to the verso of the fold; a few page-gatherings toned, scattered mostly light foxing. Classic account by Kinglake of his eighteen-month odyssey through Europe, Asia Minor and the Middle East. "After encountering plague in Constantinople, he travelled to Smyrna, Cyprus, Beirut, the Holy Land, and Jerusalem, before crossing the Sinai Desert to Cairo. Following three weeks in Egypt, he returned north through Damascus and Asia Minor then via Athens, Corfu, Rome, and Turin to London…" (ODNB). The plates are based on the author's own watercolors.