RICHARD CHANDLER ( bap . 1737-1810) Travels in Greece: or an account of a tour made at the expense of the Society of Dilettanti . Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1776. 4° (261 x 215mm). 7 engraved maps, 2 of which folding. (Large tear along creasefold to first folding map but without loss, occasional very faint spotting and browning.) Near contemporary half speckled calf over marbled-paper covered boards (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance : David Rhys-Phillips (20th-century booklabel). FIRST EDITION . In 1764 Chandler joined the Society of Dilettanti and became its treasurer. The Society sponsored an expedition to Greece and Asia Minor and appointed Chandler to lead it. Accompanied by Nicholas Revett and the watercolourist William Edmund Pars, the party spent nearly a year in Asia Minor before arriving in Athens in August 1765. There, Chandler purchased some fragments of the Parthenon frieze. Due to the ill-health of the party, they cut short their tour of Greece, arriving back in England in November 1766. The results of the expedition were published in three works: the first part of Ionian Antiquities (see lot 204) with Chandler providing the text, Revett the architectural drawings and Pars the topographical views; the epigraphy of the monuments, Inscriptiones antiquae ... in Asia Minore et Graecia (1774); and finally the present work, with an accompanying volume Travels in Asia Minor (1775). Blackmer 319.
RICHARD CHANDLER ( bap . 1737-1810) Travels in Greece: or an account of a tour made at the expense of the Society of Dilettanti . Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1776. 4° (261 x 215mm). 7 engraved maps, 2 of which folding. (Large tear along creasefold to first folding map but without loss, occasional very faint spotting and browning.) Near contemporary half speckled calf over marbled-paper covered boards (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance : David Rhys-Phillips (20th-century booklabel). FIRST EDITION . In 1764 Chandler joined the Society of Dilettanti and became its treasurer. The Society sponsored an expedition to Greece and Asia Minor and appointed Chandler to lead it. Accompanied by Nicholas Revett and the watercolourist William Edmund Pars, the party spent nearly a year in Asia Minor before arriving in Athens in August 1765. There, Chandler purchased some fragments of the Parthenon frieze. Due to the ill-health of the party, they cut short their tour of Greece, arriving back in England in November 1766. The results of the expedition were published in three works: the first part of Ionian Antiquities (see lot 204) with Chandler providing the text, Revett the architectural drawings and Pars the topographical views; the epigraphy of the monuments, Inscriptiones antiquae ... in Asia Minore et Graecia (1774); and finally the present work, with an accompanying volume Travels in Asia Minor (1775). Blackmer 319.
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