Constantinople ancient and modern : with excursions to the shores and islands of the Archipelago and to the Troad

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Author

Dallaway, James, 1763-1834.

Title

Constantinople ancient and modern : with excursions to the shores and islands of the Archipelago and to the Troad / by James Dallaway, M.B. F.S.A. late chaplain and physician of the British Embassy to the Porte.

Published

London : Printed by T. Bensley, for T. Cadell, Junr. & W. Davies, in the Strand, 1797.

Physical Description

[2], xi, [1], 415, [9] p., [10] leaves of plates : ill., map ; 28 cm.

Local Notes

BAC: British Art Center copy 1 is the Abbey copy. Bookplate: John Temple. Bound in gilt-stamped calf with marbled edges.

BAC: British Art Center copy 2 is the author's copy, in 2 volumes. Extra-illustrated with 27 engraved plates, 11 original watercolors (of which 6 were engraved for the book), and 2 partly colored maps. Manuscript material tipped in: ALS to James Dalloway from John Brand, March 19, 1802; ALS Robert Liston, Sept 1, 1794; passport form for John Stuart, Marquis of Bute, in French; ALS John Stuart, Marquess of Bute, July 30, 1796. Inscribed: From library of Rev. James Fleming the author, July 1928 (Hodgson & Co. Chancery Lane). Lindsay Fleming, Aldwick Grange, Bognor, Sussex. With the bookplate of Lindsay Fleming. Has bound with it: Itinerary from London to Constantinople in sixty days in the year 1794. London, 1805?

Notes

Title page engraved, with aquatint vignette.

"The aquatint engravings which are added in embellishment of the following pages are taken from drawings on the spot by Mr. Gaetano Mercati ..."--P. [xii].

Engravings by Joseph Constantine Stadler.

Errata: p. [xii].

Format

Books

Language

English

Added to Catalog

June 01, 2002

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

References

English short title catalogue, T195396