[First Edition] Travels in the Ionian Isles, Albania, Thessaly, Macedonia; During the Years 1812 and 1813 Holland, Henry [Used - Very good]

[First Edition] Travels in the Ionian Isles, Albania, Thessaly, Macedonia; During the Years 1812 and 1813 Holland, Henry [Used - Very good]
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Product Description

Quarto, x, [2], 551pp, [2].
Three-quarter brown morocco, marbled paper-covered boards.
Decorative gilt compartments, title in gilt over morocco label affixed to spine.
New endpapers.
All edges uncut.
Solid text block, light wear along edges of binding.
Light foxing along top edge of leaves, with a faint dampstain visible intermittently throughout the first half of the piece.
Complete with an engraved map and 12 engraved plates.
(Atabey 589) (Blackmer 825) (Contominas 333) (Weber I, 37) A nice example.
Sir Henry Holland (1788-1873) traveled through Europe for a year and a half after earning his medical degree.
Holland practiced medicine for decades, notably as a personal physician to Queen Victoria beginning in 1852.

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