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SIEBER, Franz Wilhelm

Travels in the island of Crete, in the year 1817


Phillips, London 1823. First English edition. 8vo., 118pp., folding engraved frontispiece, 2 plates, modern calf-backed marbled boards, an excellent copy.

Originally publishe in Austria in German in 1820. Sieber spent two years in the Levant, one in Crete collecting botanical specimens and the other travelling in Egypt and the Holy Land. Atabey 1131; Blackmer 1542.

Price: £ 450
US Dollar Price: $ 900
Stock Number: 53924

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