Swann Galleries: Greece & The Levant Miscellaneous Travel Literature THE PROPERTY OF A EUROPEAN COLLECTOR with additions, 1876,

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Auction Date
November 02, 2000 - November 02, 2000
Page Size: 375 items in 4 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
197 ETON, WILLIAM. A Survey of the Turkish Empire . . . Third Edition. London

1801

USD 100.00 - 200.00 316.00
198 FABRE, JEAN-RAYMOND-AUGUSTE. Histoire du Siège de Missolonghi, suivie des Pièces Justificatives. Paris

1827

USD 500.00 - 750.00 546.00
199 FALKENER, EDWARD. Ephesus, and the Temple of Diana. London

1862

USD 200.00 - 300.00 172.00
200 FARRER, RICHARD RIDLEY. A Tour in Greece 1880. Edinburgh

1882

USD 80.00 - 120.00 115.00
201 FELLOWS, SIR CHARLES. An Account of Discoveries in Lycia; being, A Journal kept during a Second Excursion in Asia Minor. London

1841

USD 300.00 - 500.00 431.00
202 FIELD, HENRY MARTYN. The Greek Islands and Turkey after the War. New York

1885

USD 80.00 - 120.00 57.00
203 FINLAY, GEORGE. The Hellenic Kingdom and the Greek Nation . . . With an Introduction by S. G. Howe. Boston

1837

USD 150.00 - 250.00 690.00
204 FINLAY, GEORGE. A History of Greece from its Conquest by the Romans to the Present Time, B.C. 146 to A.D. 1864. Oxford

1877

USD 100.00 - 200.00 632.00
205 FLETCHER, JAMES PHILLIPS. Notes from Nineveh and Travels in Mesopotamia, Assyria, and Syria. Philadelphia

1850

USD 100.00 - 200.00 69.00
206 FRASER, JAMES BAILLIE. Travels in Koordistan, Mesopotamia, &c____ With Sketches of the Character and Manners of the Koordish and Arab Tribes. London

1840

USD 100.00 - 200.00 201.00
207 GAMBA, PIETRO, Count. A Narrative of Lord Byron's Last Journey to Greece. London

1825

USD 400.00 - 600.00 517.00
208 GARNETT, LUCY MARY JANE. The Women of Turkey and Their Folk-Lore . . . With Concluding Chapters on the Origin of Matriarchy by John S. Stuart-Glennie, M.A. London

1890-91

USD 600.00 - 900.00 862.00
209 GARNETT, LUCY MARY JANE. Greek Folk Poesy: Annotated Translations, from the Whole Cycle of Romaic Folk-Verse and Folk-Prose. London

1896

USD 150.00 - 250.00 287.00
210 GARSTON, EDGAR. Greece Revisited and Sketches in Lower Egypt in 1840. With Thirty-Six Hours of a Campaign in Greece in 1825. London

1842

USD 300.00 - 500.00 201.00
211 GELL, SIR WILLIAM. The Itinerary of Greece. London

1810

USD 500.00 - 750.00 805.00
212 GELL, SIR WILLIAM. Narrative of a Journey in the Morea. London

1823

USD 400.00 - 600.00 920.00
213 GILLES, PIERRE. The Antiquities of Constantinople. London

1729

USD 600.00 - 900.00 805.00
214 [GRAZIANI, ANTONIO MARIA.] The History of the War of Cyprus. London

1687

USD 250.00 - 350.00 575.00
215 GREAT BRITAIN. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE DIVISION. Dodecanese. Second edition * Greece. Np

1943; 1944-45

USD 80.00 - 120.00 258.00
216 (GREECE.) Group of 9 volumes, consisting of facsimile reprints except for Jassaud. London; Amsterdam; London; Athens

1967; 1970; 1971; 1975-87

USD 300.00 - 500.00 345.00
217 (GREECE.) Group of 15 volumes. Vp

USD 150.00 - 250.00 126.00
218 (GREECE.) Group of 21 volumes. Vp

USD 100.00 - 200.00 103.00
219 (GREECE.) Group of 24 volumes. Vp

USD 400.00 - 600.00 488.00
220 GRIFFITHS, JULIUS. Travels in Europe, Asia Minor, and Arabia. London & Edinburgh

1805

USD 300.00 - 500.00 345.00
221 GROSVENOR, EDWIN AUGUSTUS. Constantinople . . . With an Introduction by General Lew. Wallace. Boston

1895

USD 80.00 - 120.00 172.00
222 GUILLAUME DE VAUDONCOURT, FRÉDÉRIC-FRANÇOIS. Memoirs on the Ionian Islands, considered in a Commercial, Political, and Military, Point of View . . . including the Life and Character of Ali Pacha, the Present Ruler of Greece. London

1816

USD 600.00 - 900.00 373.00
223 GUYS, PIERRE-AUGUSTIN. A Sentimental Journey through Greece in a Series of Letters, written from Constantinople ... to M. Bourlat de Montredon, at Paris. London

1772

USD 400.00 - 600.00 345.00
224 HAGGARD, SIR HENRY RIDER. A Winter Pilgrimage; being, An Account of Travels through Palestine, Italy, and the Island of Cyprus, accom plished in the Year 1900. London

1901

USD 80.00 - 120.00 115.00
225 HAMILTON, WILLIAM RICHARD. Remarks on Several Parts of Turkey. Part I. Aegyptiaca; or, Some Account of the Ancient and Modern State of Egypt in the Years 1801, 1802. London

1809

USD 500.00 - 750.00 316.00
226 HARTLEY, JOHN. Researches in Greece and the Levant ... in Connection with the Church Missionary Society . . . Second Edition, Corrected and Revised. First published in 1831. Blackmer 789.

USD 100.00 - 200.00 126.00
227 [HEMANS, FELICIA.] Modern Greece. A Poem. London

1817

USD 100.00 - 200.00 201.00
228 HENNIKER, SIR FREDERICK. Notes, during a Visit to Egypt, Nubia, the Oasis, Mount Sinai, and Jerusalem. London

1823

USD 250.00 - 350.00 690.00
229 HETTNER, HERMANN. Athens and the Peloponnese. With Sketches of Northern Greece. London

1854

USD 150.00 - 250.00 149.00
230 HICHENS, ROBERT. The Near East. New York

1913

USD 50.00 - 75.00 34.00
231 HOBHOUSE, JOHN CAM, Lord Broughton. A Journey through Albania, and Other Provinces of Turkey in Europe and Asia, to Constantinople, during the Years 1809 and 1810. London

1833;1842

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 2,070.00
232 HOLLAND, SIR HENRY. Travels in the Ionian Isles, Albania, Thessaly, Macedonia, &c. during the Years 1812 and 1813. London

1815

USD 600.00 - 900.00 862.00
233 HOLLAND, SIR HENRY. Recollections of Past Life. New York

1872

USD 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
234 HOWARD, GEORGE, seventh Earl of Carlisle. Diary in Turkish and Greek Waters . . . Third Edition. London

1854

USD 80.00 - 120.00 126.00
235 HOWE, SAMUEL GRIDLEY. An Historical Sketch of the Greek Revolution . . . Second Edition. New York

1828

USD 150.00 - 250.00 2,185.00
236 HUGHES, THOMAS SMART. Travels in Sicily, Greece, and Albania. London

1820

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 103.00
237 HUNGARISCHES- UND VENETIANISCHES KRIEGS-THEATRUM auff welchem die hochst-glücklichen Feld-Züge, so die Rom. Kayserl. und Venetianischen Armeen ... in Hungarn und Griechenland wider die Turcken gethan . . . vorgestellet werden. Leipzig

1717

USD 150.00 - 250.00 57.00
238 HUTCHISON, THOMAS S. An American Soldier under the Greek Flag at Bezanie. Nashville

1913

USD 80.00 - 120.00 373.00
239 JERVIS, HENRY JERVIS WHITE. History of the Island of Corfu, and of the Republic of the Ionian Islands. London

1852

USD 600.00 - 900.00 920.00
240 KAYAT, ASSAAD Y. A Voice from Lebanon, with the Life and Travels. London

1847

USD 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
241 KENNEDY, JAMES. Conversations on Religion, with Lord Byron and Others, held in Cephalonia, a Short Time previous to His Lordship's Death. London

1830

USD 250.00 - 350.00 517.00
242 KEPPEL, GEORGE THOMAS, Earl of Albemarle. Personal Narrative of a Journey from India to England, by Bussorah, Bagdad, the Ruins of Babylon, Curdistan, the Court of Persia, the Western Shore of the Caspian Sea, Astrakhan, Nishney Novogorod, Moscow, and St. Petersburgh, in the Year 1824 . . . Secon London

1827

USD 600.00 - 900.00 258.00
243 KEPPEL, GEORGE THOMAS, Earl of Albemarle. Narrative of a Journey across the Balcan, by the Two Passes of Selimno and Pravadi; also of a Visit to Azani, and Other Newly Discovered Ruins in Asia Minor, in the Years 1829-30. London

1831

USD 300.00 - 500.00 69.00
244 [KINGLAKE, ALEXANDER WILLIAM.] Eothen; or, Traces of Travel brought Home from the East. . . Second Edition. London

1845

USD 100.00 - 200.00 747.00
245 KNOLLES, RICHARD. The Generall Historie of the Turks. London

1631

USD 400.00 - 600.00 345.00
246 KOLOKOTRONES, THEODOROS. Kolokotrones. The Klepht and the Warrior. Sixty Years of Peril and Daring. An Autobiography. Translated from the Greek with Introduction and Notes by Mrs. Edmonds . . . With a Preface by Monsieur J. Gennadius. London

1892

USD 80.00 - 120.00 287.00
247 LABORDE, LÉON-EMMANUEL-SIMON-JOSEPH DE. Journey through Arabia Petraea to Mount Sinai and the Excavated City of Petra, the Edom of the Prophecies. London

1836

USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
248 LAMARTINE, ALPHONSE DE. Souvenirs, Impressions, Pensées et Paysages pendant un Voyage en Orient (1832-1833). Paris

1835

USD 300.00 - 500.00 161.00
249 LAMARTINE, ALPHONSE DE. Travels in the East, including a Journey in the Holy Land . . . With a Memoir of the Author. Edinburgh

1850

USD 200.00 - 300.00 57.00
250 LAURIE, THOMAS. Dr. Grant and the Mountain Nestorians . . . Third Edition, Revised. Boston

1874

USD 80.00 - 120.00 431.00
251 LAVALÉE, JOSEPH DE; and CASSAS, LOUIS-FRANÇOIS. Travels in Istria and Dalmatia, drawn up from the Itinerary of L. F. Cassas ... by Joseph Lavallée. London

1805

USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
252 LAYARD, SIR AUSTEN HENRY. Nineveh and Its Remains . . . Seventh Thousand. London

1849

USD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
253 LAYARD, SIR AUSTEN HENRY. Travels in the East, including a Journey in the Holy Land . . . With a Memoir of the Author. New York

1849

USD 100.00 - 200.00 316.00
254 LAYARD, SIR AUSTEN HENRY. Early Adventures in Persia, Susiana, and Babylonia, including a Residence among the Bakhtiyari and Other Wild Tribes before the Discovery of Nineveh. London

1887

USD 400.00 - 600.00 977.00
255 LEAKE, WILLIAM MARTIN. Journal of a Tour in Asia Minor. London

1824

USD 500.00 - 750.00 258.00
256 LEAKE, WILLIAM MARTIN. An Historical Outline of the Greek Revolution. London

1826

USD 300.00 - 500.00 632.00
257 LEAKE, WILLIAM MARTIN. Travels in the Morea. London

1830

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 2,990.00
258 LEAKE, WILLIAM MARTIN. Travels in Northern Greece. London

1835

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 862.00
259 LEAKE, WILLIAM MARTIN. The Topography of Athens. London

1841

USD 300.00 - 500.00 149.00
260 LEGH, THOMAS. Narrative of a Journey in Egypt and the Country beyond the Cataracts . . . Second Edition. London

1817

USD 80.00 - 120.00 862.00
261 [LE MESURIER, HENRIETTA.] Ismeer; or, Smyrna and its British Hospital in 1855. By a Lady. London

1856

USD 250.00 - 350.00 373.00
262 LEMPRIERE, WILLIAM. A Tour through the Dominions of the Emperor of Morocco. Including a Particular Account of the Royal Harem, and of the Persons, Costume, and Domestic Habits of the Emperor's Ladies. The Third Edition, Considerably Enlarged. London

1813

USD 100.00 - 200.00 57.00
263 LOCHER, A. With Star and Crescent: A Full and Authentic Account of a Recent Journey with a Caravan from Bombay to Constantinople. Philadelphia; London

1890; 1928

USD 80.00 - 120.00 805.00
264 [MACCRIE, THOMAS?] Address in Behalf of the Greeks, especially those who have survived the Late Massacres in Scio. Edinburgh

1822

USD 250.00 - 350.00 138.00
265 MACKENZIE, COMPTON. Greek Memories. London

1932

USD 80.00 - 120.00 57.00
266 MACKENZIE, COMPTON. Gallipoli Memories * First Athenian Memories * Aegean Memories. London

1929; 1931; 1940

USD 60.00 - 90.00 172.00
267 MACLAREN, CHARLES. A Dissertation on the Topography of the Plain of Troy including an Examination of the Opinions of Demetrius, Chevalier, Dr. Clarke, and Major Rennell. Edinburgh

1822

USD 150.00 - 250.00 747.00
268 MADDEN, RICHARD ROBERT. Travels in Turkey, Egypt, Nubia, and Palestine, in 1824, 1825, 1826, and 1827 . . . Second Edition. London

1833

USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
270 MANDEVILLE, SIR JOHN. The Voiage and Travaile . . . Which treateth of the Way to Hierusalem; and of Marvayles of Inde, with other Hands and Countryes. Now publish'd entire from an Original MS. in the Cotton Library. London

1727

USD 300.00 - 500.00 373.00
271 MARTIN DU TYRAC, LOUIS-MARIE DE, Comte de Marcellus. Chants du Peuple en Grèce. Paris

1851

USD 150.00 - 250.00 517.00
272 MAUNDRELL, HENRY. A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem; At Easter, A.D. 1697. The Seventh Edition; To which is now added an Account of the Author's Journey to the Banks of the Euphrates at Beer, and to the Country of Mesopotamia. Oxford

1749

USD 300.00 - 500.00 287.00
273 MAXWELL, EDWARD HERBERT. Griffin Ahoy! A Yacht Cruise to the Levant, and Wanderings in Egypt, Syria, the Holy Land, Greece, and Italy, in 1881. London

1882

USD 80.00 - 120.00 57.00
274 MICHON, JEAN-HIPPOLYTE, Abbé de. A Religious Journey in the East in 1850 and 1851. London

1853

USD 150.00 - 250.00 862.00
275 (MIDDLE EAST.) Group of 9 volumes. Vp

USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
276 (MIDDLE EAST.) Group of 10 volumes. Vp

USD 250.00 - 350.00 230.00
277 (MIDDLE EAST) Group of 17 volumes. Vp

USD 150.00 - 250.00 431.00
278 MILES, SAMUEL BARRETT. The Countries and Tribes of the Persian Gulf. London

1920

USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 1,610.00
279 MILLER, JONATHAN PECKHAM. The Condition of Greece, in 1827 and 1828; being, An Exposition of the Poverty, Distress, and Misery to which the Inhabitants have been reduced ... by a Merciless Turkish Foe. New York

1828

USD 150.00 - 250.00 138.00
280 MONK, CHARLES JAMES. The Golden Horn; and Sketches in Asia Minor, Egypt, Syria, and the Hauraan. London

1851

USD 600.00 - 900.00 373.00
281 MONTAGU, EDWARD WORTLEY. The Life, Travels, and Adventures . . . exhibiting his very extraordinary Transactions in England, France, Italy, Turkey, Arabia, Egypt, and the Holy Land; with Remarks on the Manners, and Customs of the Oriental World. Boston

1794

USD 150.00 - 250.00 373.00
282 MOORE, JOSEPH, Jr. Outlying Europe and the Nearer Orient. Philadelphia

1880

USD 100.00 - 200.00 69.00
283 MORIER, SIR JAMES JUSTINIAN. A Journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople, in the Years 1808 and 1809. London

1812

USD 500.00 - 750.00 747.00
284 MORIER, SIR JAMES JUSTINIAN. A Second Journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople, between the Years 1810 and 1816. With a Journal of the Voyage by the Brazils and Bombay to the Persian Gulf. London

1818

USD 300.00 - 500.00 287.00
285 MORRIS, EDWARD JOY. Notes of a Tour through Turkey, Greece, Egypt, Arabia Petraea, to the Holy Land. Aberdeen

1847

USD 100.00 - 200.00 201.00
286 MURRAY, JOHN, publisher. Handbook for Travellers in Greece . . . Fifth Edition thoroughly revised and corrected. London

[endpaper ads dated October 1893]

USD 100.00 - 200.00 230.00
287 NEWTON, CHARLES THOMAS. Travels and Discoveries in the Levant. London

1865

USD 400.00 - 600.00 546.00
288 NEWTON, CHARLES THOMAS. Another copy. London

1865

USD 400.00 - 600.00 575.00
289 (NINEVEH, etc.) Group of 4 volumes. New York; London

1853

USD 200.00 - 300.00 172.00
290 OCKLEY, SIMON. The History of the Saracens. London

1718

USD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
291 OCKLEY, SIMON. Third edition. Cambridge

1757

USD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
292 OLIN, STEPHEN. Travels in Egypt, Arabia Petraea, and the Holy Land . . . Fourth Edition. New York

1844

USD 100.00 - 200.00 345.00
293 OLIN, STEPHEN. Greece and the Golden Horn. New York

1854

USD 100.00 - 200.00 115.00
294 PALGRAVE, WILLIAM GIFFORD. Narrative of a Journey through Central and Eastern Arabia (1862-63). London

1865

USD 500.00 - 750.00 Not Sold
295 PALMER, FREDERICK. Going to War in Greece. New York; London

1897; 1897

USD 80.00 - 120.00 57.00
296 PATTERSON, JAMES LAIRD. Journal of a Tour in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, and Greece: With Notes, and an Appendix on Ecclesiastical Subjects. London

1852

USD 250.00 - 350.00 488.00
297 PAUSANIAS. An Extract out of Pausanias, of the Statues, Pictures, and Temples in Greece; which were remaining there in his Time. London

1758

USD 150.00 - 250.00 103.00
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