George Newenham Wright: 'The Shores and Islands of the Medit...

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£40 - £60

George Newenham Wright: 'The Shores and Islands of the Mediterranean. Drawn from nature by Sir Grenville Temple, Bart., W. L. Leitch, Esq., Major Irton and Lieut. Allen, R.E. With an analysis of the Mediterranean and description of the plates, by the Rev. G. N. Wright.', London, Fisher, [1840], added engraved vignette title page, engraved folding map + 63 engraved plates complete, being views of Gibraltar, Palermo, Malta, Corfu, Tunis, Algiers, Taormina, Rhodes, Amalfi, Etna, Salerno, Genoa, 'The Cathedral (Madre Chiesa) at Palermo', 'Strada St. Giovanni, Valetta, Malta', 'The Marina of Valetta, Malta', 'Town and Harbour of Bathiu, Ithaca', 'The Ruins Of Carthage', 'Gibraltar from the Signal Tower", 'Ruins at Sbeitlah, Tunis', 'Naples from the Villa Falconnet', 'The Port of Messina', 'Grecian Temples at Segesta', &c., 156pp, 4to, contemporary half morocco gilt, all edges gilt, bookplate of W.D. Mckenzie, Fawley Court, Henley on Thames, to front pastedown