Hughes (Thomas Smart . Travels in Sicily, Greece and Albania, 2 volumes, 1st edition, for J. Mawman, 1820, 14 engraved or aquatint plates and maps (of 15: lacking volume 2 plate facing p. 35), spotting and browning, ink-stamps of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland to title-pages, preliminary text leaves and volume 2 frontispiece, later 19th-century red calf, worn, loss to volume 1 lower spine compartment, 4to (27 x 20.5 cm), together with: Gell (William, & John P. Gandy). Pompeiana. The Tography, Edifices, and Ornaments of Pompeii, 2 volumes, 2nd edition, Rodwell and Martin, 1824, engraved frontispiece, unnumbered plate, map, 2 folding plans, 75 plates numbered 1-77 (some double-page or folding, 2 hand-coloured), half-titles discarded, spotting to frontispiece, text-block and plate margins, partly unopened, bookplate, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, later half morocco, spines refurbished, chipping to paper sides, large 8vo (27 x 17.2 cm), Carne (John), Syria, the Holy Land and Asia Minor, 3 volumes, Fisher, Son, & Co., 1842, 123 engraved plates including vignette titles and portrait frontispiece of Muhammad 'Ali Pasha after W. H Bartlett, William Purser and Thomas Allom 2 engraved maps, tissue-guards throughout, first 3 plates of volume 2 creased and marginally damp-stained, a few other faint marginal marks, inner hinges skilfully reinforced, remains a bright copy with strong impressions of the plates, contemporary ownership inscription dated 1844 to title-pages, all edges gilt, original cloth gilt, volume 1 front joint partially cracked at head, 4to (27.2 x 21 cm), and 1 other (Qty: 8) Blackmer 843 (Hughes, proof copy) 666 (Gell) & 291 (Carne, first edition, 1836-8); Abbey Travel 203 & Atabey 599 (Hughes). This 'new edition' of Gell's work 'is a large-paper issue of the 1817-19 octavo [first] edition spread out into two volumes with new titles and half-titles' (Blackmer).
Hughes (Thomas Smart . Travels in Sicily, Greece and Albania, 2 volumes, 1st edition, for J. Mawman, 1820, 14 engraved or aquatint plates and maps (of 15: lacking volume 2 plate facing p. 35), spotting and browning, ink-stamps of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland to title-pages, preliminary text leaves and volume 2 frontispiece, later 19th-century red calf, worn, loss to volume 1 lower spine compartment, 4to (27 x 20.5 cm), together with: Gell (William, & John P. Gandy). Pompeiana. The Tography, Edifices, and Ornaments of Pompeii, 2 volumes, 2nd edition, Rodwell and Martin, 1824, engraved frontispiece, unnumbered plate, map, 2 folding plans, 75 plates numbered 1-77 (some double-page or folding, 2 hand-coloured), half-titles discarded, spotting to frontispiece, text-block and plate margins, partly unopened, bookplate, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, later half morocco, spines refurbished, chipping to paper sides, large 8vo (27 x 17.2 cm), Carne (John), Syria, the Holy Land and Asia Minor, 3 volumes, Fisher, Son, & Co., 1842, 123 engraved plates including vignette titles and portrait frontispiece of Muhammad 'Ali Pasha after W. H Bartlett, William Purser and Thomas Allom 2 engraved maps, tissue-guards throughout, first 3 plates of volume 2 creased and marginally damp-stained, a few other faint marginal marks, inner hinges skilfully reinforced, remains a bright copy with strong impressions of the plates, contemporary ownership inscription dated 1844 to title-pages, all edges gilt, original cloth gilt, volume 1 front joint partially cracked at head, 4to (27.2 x 21 cm), and 1 other (Qty: 8) Blackmer 843 (Hughes, proof copy) 666 (Gell) & 291 (Carne, first edition, 1836-8); Abbey Travel 203 & Atabey 599 (Hughes). This 'new edition' of Gell's work 'is a large-paper issue of the 1817-19 octavo [first] edition spread out into two volumes with new titles and half-titles' (Blackmer).
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