Description:
Wheler, George (1650-1723) A Journey into Greece. London: for William Cademan, Robert Kettlewell, and Ansham Churchill, 1682. First edition, folio, lacking the folding map, illustrated with text engravings, and six additional engraved plates extraneous to the collation (of which four are full-page plates of coins and two are printed on smaller slips of paper),bound in full modern calf, ex libris E.S. & H. Lloyd, with bookplate, 11 1/2 x 7 3/4 in.
[pi]1, A2, a-b2, B-L4, Aa-Zz4, Aaa-Ppp4, Qqq2.
http://estc.bl.uk/R9388
Estimate $1,500-2,000
Lacking the folding map.
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Keywords
Ansham Churchill, Robert Kettlewell, William Cademan, Greece, LondonJohn Dorfman
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