CHANDLER, Richard (1737-1810). Travels in Asia Minor: or an account of a tour made at the expense of the Society of Dilettanti. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1775.
4° (272 x 210mm). One large folding engraved map. (Occasional light spotting, a few light marginal stains.) Contemporary polished calf, gilt-tooled spine, red morocco lettering-piece (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: R.B. More (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION. In 1764 Chandler joined the Society of Dilettanti, becoming its treasurer and leader of the expedition to Greece and Asia Minor which the society sponsored. Accompanied by Nicholas Revett and the watercolourist William Edmund Pars, he spent nearly a year in Asia Minor before arriving in Athens in August 1765. The expedition resulted in three major works – the Ionian Antiquities 1769-1797, Inscriptiones antiquae, 1774, and the two volumes of Travels in Asia Minor and Travels in Greece. Blackmer 318; ESTC T51597.
CHANDLER, Richard (1737-1810). Travels in Asia Minor: or an account of a tour made at the expense of the Society of Dilettanti. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1775.
4° (272 x 210mm). One large folding engraved map. (Occasional light spotting, a few light marginal stains.) Contemporary polished calf, gilt-tooled spine, red morocco lettering-piece (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: R.B. More (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION. In 1764 Chandler joined the Society of Dilettanti, becoming its treasurer and leader of the expedition to Greece and Asia Minor which the society sponsored. Accompanied by Nicholas Revett and the watercolourist William Edmund Pars, he spent nearly a year in Asia Minor before arriving in Athens in August 1765. The expedition resulted in three major works – the Ionian Antiquities 1769-1797, Inscriptiones antiquae, 1774, and the two volumes of Travels in Asia Minor and Travels in Greece. Blackmer 318; ESTC T51597.
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