Books and Manuscripts

Allan, John H(arrison).
A Pictorial Tour of the Mediterranean: Including Malta-Dalmatia-Turkey-Asia Minor-Grecian Archipelago-Egypt-Nubia-Greece-Ionian Islands-Sicily-Italy-and Spain
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1843. First edition. Folio, 14 5/8 x 10 3/4 in. (371 x 273 mm). (x), 96 pp. Illustrated with a tinted lithographic title-page, 40 tinted lithographic plates, and numerous in-text wood engravings. Publisher's blue cloth-covered boards, stamped in blind and in gilt, hinges very expertly restored, soiling to boards and along top edge of front board; all edges trimmed; yellow endpapers; scattered light foxing to plates. Blackmer 24; Abbey, Travel 200

Allan spent a year traveling in the Mediterranean, from 1841-42, completing the drawings that are the source of these magnificent plates, including views in Kos, Rhodes, Egypt, Greece, Sicily and Palermo.

A lovely copy.