[Kinglake, Alexander William]
Eothen
£3,528
Auction: 19 September 2024 from 10:00 BST
Description
or Traces of Travel brought Home from the East. London: John Ollivier, 1844. First edition, 8vo, xi 418 pp., original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, large vignette of an eastern horseman in gilt to front board and in blind to rear, yellow endpapers, half-title, folding hand-coloured lithographic frontispiece, one other hand-coloured lithographic plate, short nick to head of spine, small mark to head of front board, variable spotting to contents, contemporary ownership inscription to half-title, small marginal nick to foot of frontispiece [Abbey Travel 362]
Provenance
The Library of a Scottish Gentleman
Footnote
First editions of Kinglake's classic of Middle Eastern travel are strikingly uncommon in the original cloth.