Magasin de Aviv gallery
masaryk 14, Tel-Aviv
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Numéro de lot : 2693-122645
Julius Griffiths, M.D.
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Prix:
$2 800
Le prix inclut les taxes et la commission
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Travels to Europe, Asia Minor, and Arabia, 1805
renewed hardcover
Published by London Cadell, 1805
First edition, 4to, xx, 396pp., large folding map, 4 engraved plates,
Griffiths traveled out to Constantinople with the philosopher and social reformer Jeremy Bentham in 1785, before going on to travel in the Levant disguised as a Greek. He was joined on his journey by David Hays who died on the journey, and this event is depicted in a folding plate. Griffiths records his travels through Constantinople, Scutari, Mytelene, Chios, Smyrna, Aleppo, Basrah, and down the Persian Gulf to Muscat.
