Travel. Wittman (William, M.D. of The Royal Artillery et al)...

Hammer

£80

Travel. Wittman (William, M.D. of The Royal Artillery et al), Travels in Turkey, Asia-Minor, Syria, and across the desert into Egypt during the years 1799, 1800, and 1801 [...], first edition, London: Printed for Richard Phillips, 1803, folding frontispiece, xvi, 503, [3], [483]-595, [1]pp (publisher's advert), illustrated with 7 engraved plates only, of which 2 are folding, plan of the Jaffa encampment with hand-coloured delineation, folding engraved frontispiece somewhat foxed, off-setting onto the title-page which also has a vertical crease, the folding map and the folding Ottoman calligraphic passport plates with tears, later 20th c cloth over marbled boards, contemporary marbled edges, later endpapers, 4to, [Atabey 1344; Blackmer 1832; Weber 647; not in Abbey or Colas]

Provenance: Henry Winter, contemporary ink MS ownership inscription.