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
298	PAUSANIAS.	The Description of Greece . . . Translated from the Greek [by Thomas Taylor]. With Notes, in which much of the Mythology of the Greeks is unfolded from a Theory which has been for many Ages unknown.	London	1794	USD 400.00 - 600.00	316.00
299	PAUSANIAS.	Pausanias's Description of Greece. Translated with a Commentary by J. G. Frazer.	London	1913	USD 150.00 - 250.00	517.00
300	PERDICARIS, GREGORY A.	The Greece of the Greeks.	New York	1846-45	USD 250.00 - 350.00	230.00
301	(PERSIA.)	Group of 6 volumes.	Vp		USD 80.00 - 120.00	92.00
302	PÉTIS DE LA CROIX, FRANÇOIS, the Younger.	État Présent des Nations et Églises Grecque, Arménienne, et Maronite en Turquie.	Paris	1715 [i. e., 1695]	USD 300.00 - 500.00	690.00
303	PITMAN, EMMA RAYMOND.	Mission Life in Greece and Palestine. Memorials of the Missionary Labours of Mary Briscoe Baldwin in Athens and Joppa.	London	1881?	USD 100.00 - 200.00	373.00
304	POCOCKE, RICHARD.	A Description of the East.	London	1743-45	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	3,680.00
305	PORTER, JOSIAS LESLIE.	The Giant Cities of Bashan; and Syria's Holy Places.	London	1867	USD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
306	POUQUEVILLE, FRANÇOIS-CHARLES-HUGUES-LAURENT.	Travels in Greece and Turkey, comprehending a Particular Account of the Morea, Albania, &c. . . . Second Edition.	London	1820	USD 500.00 - 750.00	1,725.00
307	POUQUEVILLE, FRANÇOIS-CHARLES-HUGUES-LAURENT.	Travels in Epirus, Albania, Macedonia, and Thessaly.	London	1820	USD 150.00 - 250.00	172.00
308	RENNELL, JAMES.	The Geographical System of Herodotus Examined; and Explained, by a Comparison with those of Other Ancient Authors, and with Modern Geography.	London	1800	USD 150.00 - 250.00	230.00
309	RENNELL, JAMES.	Illustrations (Chiefly Geographical) of the History of the Expedition of Cyrus, from Sardis to Babylonia; and the Retreat of the Ten Thousand Greeks, from thence to Trebisonde, and Lydia.	London	1816	USD 100.00 - 200.00	103.00
310	RICH, CLAUDIUS JAMES.	Narrative of a Journey to the Site of Babylon in 1811, now first published . . . edited by his Widow.	London	1839	USD 300.00 - 500.00	546.00
311	RITT, OLIVIER.	Histoire de l'Isthme de Suez.	Paris	1869	USD 100.00 - 200.00	57.00
312	ST. JOHN, BAYLE.	Adventures in the Libyan Desert and the Oasis of Jupiter Ammon.	New York	1849	USD 100.00 - 200.00	138.00
313	ST. JOHN, JAMES AUGUSTUS.	Egypt and Nubia.	London	1845	USD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
314	SANDYS, GEORGE.	A Relation of a Journey begun An: Dom: 1610 . . . Containing a Description of the Turkish Empire, of Aegypt, of the Holy Land, of the Remote Parts of Italy, and Islands adjoyning.	London	1615	USD 250.00 - 350.00	488.00
315	SAVARY, CLAUDE-ETIENNE.	Letters on Egypt... Second Edition.	London	1787	USD 200.00 - 300.00	126.00
316	SAVARY, CLAUDE-ÉTIENNE.	Lettres sur la Grèce.	Paris	1788	USD 250.00 - 350.00	201.00
317	SAVARY, CLAUDE-ÉTIENNE.	Letters on Greece; being, A Sequel to Letters on Egypt, and containing Travels through Rhodes, Crete, and Other Islands of the Archipelago.	London	1788	USD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
318	SCHLIEMANN, HEINRICH.	Troja. Results of the Latest Researches and Discoveries on the Site of Homer's Troy . . . made in the Year 1882.	New York	1884	USD 80.00 - 120.00	92.00
319	SENIOR, NASSAU WILLIAM.	A Journal kept in Turkey and Greece in the Autumn of 1857 and the Beginning of 1858.	London	1859	USD 250.00 - 350.00	Not Sold
320	[SHAKESPEAR, JOHN; and HORNE, THOMAS HARTWELL.]	The History of the Mahometan Empire . . . Designed as an Introduction to The Arabian Antiquities of Spain by James Cavanagh Murphy.	London	1816	USD 300.00 - 500.00	345.00
321	SHAW, THOMAS.	Travels or Observations relating to Several Parts of Barbary and the Levant.	Oxford	1738; 1746	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	1,610.00
322	SHERER, JOSEPH MOYLE.	Scenes and Impressions in Egypt and in Italy . . . Third Edition.	London	1825	USD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
323	SLADE, ADOLPHUS, Admiral.	Records of Travels in Turkey, Greece, &c. And of a Cruise in the Black Sea, with the Captain Pasha, in the Years 1829, 1830, and 1831 . . . Second Edition.	London	1833	USD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
324	SLADE, ADOLPHUS, Admiral.	Slade's Travels in Turkey. Turkey and the Turks, and a Cruise in the Black Sea.	New York	1854	USD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
325	SLATIN, RUDOLF CARL, Freiherr von.	Fire and Sword in the Sudan.	London	1896	USD 150.00 - 250.00	126.00
326	SONNINI, CHARLES-NICOLAS-SIGISBERT.	Travels in Upper and Lower Egypt.	London	1800	USD 300.00 - 500.00	316.00
327	SONNINI, CHARLES-NICOLAS-SIGISBERT.	Travels in Upper and Lower Egypt . . . Translated from the French by Henry Hunter, D.D. . . . New Edition.	London	1807	USD 150.00 - 250.00	258.00
328	SONNINI, CHARLES-NICOLAS-SIGISBERT.	Travels in Greece and Turkey, undertaken by Order of Louis XVI. And with the Authority of the Ottoman Court.	London	1801	USD 150.00 - 250.00	103.00
329	SOTEROPOULOS, SOTERIOS.	The Brigands of the Morea. A Narrative of the Captivity of Mr. S. Soteropoulos.	London	1868	USD 600.00 - 900.00	1,610.00
330	SPON, JACOB.	Voyage d'Italie, de Dalmatie, de Grèce, et du Levant, fait aux Années 1675 & 1676.	Amsterdam	1679	USD 500.00 - 750.00	575.00
331	STANHOPE, HESTER LUCY, Lady.	Memoirs ... as related by Herself in Conversations with Her Physician . . . Second Edition.	London	1846	USD 400.00 - 600.00	1,725.00
332	(STANHOPE, HESTER LUCY, Lady.) [Meryon, Charles Edward.]	Travels of Lady Hester Stanhope; narrated by Her Physician.	London	1848?	USD 400.00 - 600.00	2,070.00
333	[STEPHENS, JOHN LLOYD.]	Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland.	New York	1838	USD 100.00 - 200.00	115.00
334	STRUYS, JANS.	The Voiages and Travels . . . through Italy, Greece, Muscovy, Tartary, Media, Persia, East-India, Japan, and Other Countries in Europe, Africa, and Asia.	London	1684	USD 500.00 - 750.00	862.00
335	SUTHERLAND, DAVID.	A Tour up the Straits, from Gibraltar to Constantinople. With the Leading Events in the Present War between the Austrians, Russians, and Turks, to the Commencement of the Year 1789 . . . Second Edition, corrected.	London	1790	USD 250.00 - 350.00	258.00
336	TENNENT, SIR JAMES EMERSON.	Letters from the Aegean.	New York	1829	USD 150.00 - 250.00	258.00
337	TENNENT, SIR JAMES EMERSON; PECCHIO, GIUSEPPE, Count; and HUMPHREYS, W. H.	A Picture of Greece in 1825 . . . Comprising a Detailed Account of the Events of the Late Campaign, and Sketches of the Principal Military, Naval, and Political Chiefs.	London	1826	USD 400.00 - 600.00	258.00
338	THORNTON, THOMAS.	The Present State of Turkey; or, A Description of the Political, Civil, and Religious Constitution, Government, and Laws, of the Ottoman Empire . . . Together with the Geographical, Political, and Civil, State of the Principalities of Moldavia and Wallach	London	1807	USD 300.00 - 500.00	488.00
339	TOURNEFORT, JOSEPH PITTON DE.	A Voyage into the Levant.	London	1741	USD 500.00 - 750.00	4,140.00
340	TRANT, THOMAS ABERCROMBY.	Narrative of a Journey through Greece, in 1830. With Remarks upon the Actual State of the Naval and Military Power of the Ottoman Empire.	London	1830	USD 100.00 - 200.00	172.00
341		TRAVELS IN GREECE. Compiled from the Best Authorities for the Society for the Promoting the United and Scriptural Education of the Poor of Ireland.	Dublin	1830s	USD 80.00 - 120.00	138.00
342	TREVOR-BATTYE, AUBYN.	Camping in Crete. With Notes upon the Animal and Plant Life of the Island.	London	1913	USD 80.00 - 120.00	115.00
343	TUCKERMAN, CHARLES KEATING.	The Greeks of Today.	New York	1872	USD 100.00 - 200.00	69.00
344	(TURKEY.)	Group of 19 volumes.	Vp		USD 300.00 - 500.00	1,495.00
345	TURNER, WILLIAM.	Journal of a Tour in the Levant.	London	1820	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	8,625.00
346	TWEDDELL, JOHN.	Remains of the Late John Tweddell . . . Second Edition.	London	1816	USD 250.00 - 350.00	201.00
347	URQUHART, DAVID.	The Spirit of the East . . . Second Edition.	London	1839	USD 500.00 - 750.00	316.00
348	VAN LENNEP, HENRY JOHN.	Ten Days Among Greek Brigands. A True Story.	New York	1874	USD 150.00 - 250.00	161.00
349	VILLEMAIN, ABEL-FRANÇOIS.	Lascaris; ou, Les Grecs au Quinzieme Siècle, suivi d'un Essai Historique sur l'État des Grecs, depuis la Conquête Musulmane jusq'à Nos Jours.	Paris	1825	USD 100.00 - 200.00	126.00
350	VOLNEY, CONSTANTIN-FRANÇOIS, Comte de.	The Ruins; or, A Survey of the Revolutions of Empires.	London	1792	USD 100.00 - 200.00	258.00
351	VOLNEY, CONSTANTIN-FRANÇOIS, Comte de.	Travels through Syria and Egypt, in the Years 1783, 1784, and 1785.	New York	1798	USD 100.00 - 200.00	69.00
352	VOLNEY, CONSTANTIN-FRANÇOIS, Comte de.	Another edition.	London	1805	USD 100.00 - 200.00	92.00
353	WADDINGTON, GEORGE.	A Visit to Greece in 1823 and 1824.	London	1825	USD 300.00 - 500.00	431.00
354	WALKER, MARY.	Old Tracks and New Landmarks: Wayside Sketches in Crete, Macedonia, Mitylene, etc.	London	1897	USD 80.00 - 120.00	201.00
355	WALPOLE, ROBERT, editor.	Memoirs relating to European and Asiatic Turkey.	London	1817	USD 300.00 - 500.00	431.00
356	WALPOLE, ROBERT, editor.	Travels in Various Countries of the East.	London	1820	USD 300.00 - 500.00	402.00
357	WARBURTON, BARTHOLOMEW ELIOT GEORGE.	The Crescent and the Cross; or, Romance and Realities of Eastern Travel. . . Second Edition.	London	1846	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
358	WHELER, SIR GEORGE.	A Journey into Greece.	London	1682	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	3,910.00
359	WHITE, CHARLES.	Three Years in Constantinople; or, Domestic Manners of the Turks in 1844 . . . Second Edition.	London	1845	USD 200.00 - 300.00	373.00
360	WILDE, WILLIAM ROBERT WILLS.	Narrative of a Voyage to Madeira, Teneriffe, and the along the Shores of the Mediterranean, including a Visit to Algiers, Egypt, Palestine, Tyre, Rhodes, Telmessus, Cyprus, and Greece.	Dublin	1844	USD 150.00 - 250.00	402.00
361	WILLIAMS, HUGH WILLIAM.	Travels in Italy, Greece, and the Ionian Islands.	Edinburgh	1820	USD 300.00 - 500.00	402.00
362	WILLIAMS, HUGH WILLIAM.	Select Views in Greece.	London	1829	USD 400.00 - 600.00	632.00
363	WILSON, WILLIAM RAE.	Travels in the Holy Land, Egypt, etc.	London	1847	USD 100.00 - 200.00	316.00
364	[WISE, HENRY AUGUSTUS.]	Scampavias from Gibel Tarek to Stamboul. By Harry Gringo [pseud.].	New York	1857	USD 100.00 - 200.00	69.00
365	WITHERS, ROBERT.	A Description of the Grand Seignor's Seraglio, or, Turkish Emperor's Court.	London	1737	USD 100.00 - 200.00	69.00
366	WITTMAN, WILLIAM.	Travels in Turkey, Asia-Minor, Syria, and Across the Desert into Egypt during the Years 1799, 1800, and 1801, in Company with the Turkish Army, and the British Military Mission. To which are annexed, Observations on the Plague, and on the Diseases prevale	London	1803	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	1,092.00
367	WOOD, ROBERT.	An Essay on the Original Genius and Writings of Homer: With a Comparative View of the Ancient and Present State of the Troade.	London	1775	USD 250.00 - 350.00	402.00
368	WORDSWORTH, CHRISTOPHER.	Athens and Attica: Notes of a Tour.	London	1855	USD 100.00 - 200.00	126.00
369	WORDSWORTH, CHRISTOPHER.	Greece: Pictorial, Descriptive, and Historical . . Fifth Edition.	London	1869 [i. e., 1871]	USD 150.00 - 250.00	201.00
370	WRIGHT, WALLER RODWELL.	Horae Ionicae: A Poem, descriptive of the Ionian Islands, and Part of the Adjacent Coast of Greece.	London	1809	USD 100.00 - 200.00	126.00
371	WYSE, SIR THOMAS.	An Excursion in the Peloponnesus in the Year 1858.	London	1865	USD 500.00 - 750.00	1,495.00
372	WYSE, SIR THOMAS.	Impressions of Greece.	London	1871	USD 250.00 - 350.00	Not Sold

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