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Clarke Ed., “Travells in various countries of Europe,Asia and Africa,Part the First, Russia,Tartary and Turkey”, London 1810 – “Part the second Greece, Egypt and the Holy Land, section the first”, London 1812 – “Part the second Greece, Egypt and the Holy Land, second section”, London 1814. First edition. Three volumes in small Folio 29x22cm, contemporary leather over boards, heavily rubbed at spines, winges week, part of leather in two spines missing, some browning and spotting. Complete the three volumes: 755p., 715p., 822p. and all the 110 engraved plates, aquatints and maps. Overall a good copy of a scarce work. Edward Clarke travelled with his pupil Cripps. He set out in 1799 visiting Russia, after Crimea and the coast of Black sea (then called Tartary) before reaching Turkey in early 1800. He spent his next three years travelling around the Levant. After he had visited Scandinavia. Tireless, the two men collected, observed and recorded antiquities, statistics, plants, minerals, climates, people and customs. A unique account with more than a hundred illustrations for the Levant, in total, including beautiful views of Athens and several other places in Greece, as well as early aquatints. Three more volumes published separately later (the two regarding Scandinavia). The first edition in Folio of this book is very rare. Atabey 253, Blackmer 365.