Lot 657

SPRATT, Thomas Abel Brimage (1811-88). Travels and Researches in Crete.

Estimate: £500 - £800
Hammer price: £850
Bidding ended. Lot has been sold.

SPRATT, Thomas Abel Brimage (1811-88).  Travels and Researches in Crete. London: John van Voorst, 1865. 2 volumes, 8vo (223 x 140mm). 2 folding hand-coloured engraved maps, 17 lithographed plates, many tinted, one folding, mounted illustrations including 2 full-page, one-page publisher’s advertisement at the front of vol. one (occasional light mainly marginal spotting and staining). Original publisher’s terracotta cloth gilt (corners bumped, extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: early annotation at beginning of first vol. and at some margins; from the Collection of Lt. Cdr. Andrew David (bookplate). FIRST EDITION. Blackmer 1590; Hopkirk 583. (2)

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