Beschreibung:

CLARKE, Edward Daniel (1769-1822). Travels in various Countries of Europe Asia and Africa. London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1811-1812-1814-1816-1819-1823. 6 volumes, 4° (268 x 215mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece to vol. one, 181 engraved plates, maps and plans comprising 27 plans and maps, one with touches of hand-colour, 6 double-page, 13 folding, 154 plates, one hand-coloured, one printed in red, 4 folding, numerous illustrations (offsetting from plates onto facing text leaves, some plates shaved with slight loss, occasional light spotting and soiling). Contemporary russia gilt, covers with triple fillet border, spines in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second and fourth compartments, the third with the volume number surrounded by small tools, the other compartments with repeat overall decoration in gilt with massed small tools surronding a large rococo tool, marbled endpapers, marbled edges (spines somewhat faded). A VERY FINE SET of a mixed edition, volume I second edition, volumes II-VI first edition. The plate total includes the plate facing p.406 in the fifth volume which includes two images on one page but is listed as two separate plates (numbers 21 and 22) in the plate list at the front of the volume. Clarke visited Scandinavia, Russia (from St. Petersburg down to the Sea of Azov), then Constantinople, Rhodes, Egypt, Cyprus, Syria, Jeruslem, Galilee, then Greece (including Athens) then back overland to England. The present work records his journeying in great detail and was "Perhaps the most instructive and engaging book of travels ever published in this country": Lowndes II, p.471. With William Otter's The Life and Remains of the Rev. Edward Daniel Clarke (London, 1824, uniformly bound with the above). (7)