Including a Steam Voyage down the Danube, from Vienna to Constantinople and round the Black Sea, in 1836. First edition. 2 vols. Folding map & large folding chart, 2 coloured lithograph frontispieces, & 2 further lithograph plates, with several vignettes in the text. A very little foxing, map with a large closed tear. Contemporary half calf, this rubbed and a little chafed, with marbled paper boards a little rubbed. Very good. xxxvii, 355; xiii, 425pp. Inside a bright a clean copy. London, Henry Colburn, 1837.
This was Spencer’s first work and recounts his travels through the Caucasus, the Crimea and around the Black Sea.
Abbey, 354; cf. Blackmer, 1580 (third edition).
