Travels to the Near East, Classics, and Others, Six Volumes.

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Travels to the Near East, Classics, and Others, Six Volumes. Henry Manudrell's A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter, A.D. 1697, Oxford: at the Theater, 1732, octavo, illustrated with fifteen engraved plates, contemporary tan calfskin binding, with speckled panels, joints cracked, contents clean, 7 3/4 x 4 3/4 in.
Richard Tully's Letters Written during a Ten Years' Residence at the Court of Tripoli, London: for Colburn, 1819, octavo, in two volumes, illustrated with a folding map and seven full-paged, hand-colored plates, some foxing and offsetting, good color, in contemporary half-leather, rebacked, 8 1/4 x 5 in.
Fosbroke's Foreign Topography, London: for Nichols and Son, 1828, large quarto, illustrated with eleven plates, in contemporary boards, cloth spine, worn, joints frayed, board edges chipped and damaged, contents slightly toned, one plate loose, 11 x 8 3/4 in.
Joseph Wilson's Memorabilia Cantabrigiae, London: for Harding et alia, 1803, octavo, illustrated, half-leather, worn, contents toned, 7 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.
[and] The Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius, translated by George Long, London: Chapman & Hall, [n.d.], quarto, bound in half blue calf by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. (6)
Estimate $400-600


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