Travel
NEWTON, Charles Thomas.
Travels and discoveries in the Levant.
Day, London 1865. First edition. 2 volumes, 8vo., xiv, [2], 360; xiv, [2], 275pp., 41 plates and maps, some folding, including 12 original photographs of antiquities by F. Bedford, original blind-stamped green cloth gilt, neat repairs to extremities, a very good set.
The excavations at Halicarnassus and Cnidus were the first major archaeological expedition to be recorded by photography. This book is the popular account of these digs. It also includes a long notice of Mitylene and Newton's life there as vice-consul, and describes his consular activities in Rhodes. Atabey 869; Blackmer 1193; Gernsheim Incunabula 284.
Price: £ 950
US Dollar Price: $ 1890
Stock Number: 67646