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437 - The Orient – Greece and Turkey
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Estimate €400 - €600
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The Orient – Greece and Turkey Newton, Charles Thomas Travels & Discoveries in the Levant. 2 volumes. With 12 (2 folded) maps and plans, 12 mounted photographic plates, 17 woodcut plates and 38 woodcut illustrations in the text. London, Day and Son, 1865. XIV pp., 1 leaf, 360, XIV pp., 1 leaf, 275 pp. (modern) cloth binding with gold-stamped title on the spine. First edition. - Blackmer 1193 - Gernsheim, Incunaula of British Photogr. Lit., 284 - This work documents Newton’s travels, excavations and discoveries in the Aegean region and along the coast of present-day Turkey between 1852 and 1859. The most historically significant part of the work is the detailed account of the localisation and excavation of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus. The tomb of King Mausolus II was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Newton succeeded in uncovering the foundations and recovering spectacular sculptural fragments (including the famous colossal statues and parts of the Amazon frieze). - Endpapers slightly stained; frontispiece with a tear in the fold, occasionally slightly stained. First edition. - An account of the English archaeologist’s travels and discoveries in the Levant and Asia Minor from 1852 to 1859. - 2 vols. With 12 (2 folded) maps, 12 mounted photographic plates, 17 woodcut plates and 38 woodcuts in the text. - The endpapers are slightly stained; the frontispiece has a tear along the fold and is occasionally slightly stained.
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Auction time 10/24/2026 at 10:00 AM
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