First edition. Double page map with route outlined in red, 21 lithograph plates. Large 8vo. Original hatched, pictorial green cloth, gilt, rebacked with original spine expertly laid down. Spine faded, evidence of removed labels to covers and pastedowns, one plate loose. Occasional foxing as usual. [xi], 347pp. London, John Murray, 1839.
The rare first edition. The appearance of this work “excited such interest that the British Museum undertook three subsequent expeditions under Fellows’s direction… In Lycea, an area relatively unknown to European travellers, he discovered the ruins of cities which had existed prior to 300 B.C.” (Navari).
Blackmer 578.
