Travel
PASHLEY, Robert.
Travels in Crete.
Murray, London 1837. First edition. 2 volumes, 8vo., xl, 321; ix, [iv], 326, [i (errata)]pp., lithographed frontispieces, title vignettes, large folding map (slight fraying to fore-edge), 8 lithographed plates by L. Haghe after Schranz, folding plate of inscriptions (slightly frayed), wood-engravings in the text, ex-libris London Institution with their stamp to titles and final leaves, modern dark blue half morocco gilt by Aquarius, a fine set.
As travelling fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Pashley undertook in 1833 a tour in Greece, Asia Minor, and Crete. Through the influence of Sir Francis Beaufort, he received from the Admiralty a free passage in the vessels employed in the Mediterranean survey. Pashley spent most of 1834 exploring Crete in detail, accompanied by Antonio Schranz who did the drawings for the work. Together Pashley and Schranz visited practically every village, monastery, and ancient site on the island, producing a very detailed account. Unfortunately a great part of the impression, together with Pashley's library and collections of antiquities, was destroyed in the fire at the Temple in 1838.
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