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Lot 131

WHELER (GEORGE)
A Journey into Greece, FIRST EDITION, William Cademan, Robert Kettlewell and Awnsham Churchill, 1682

24 June 2015, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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WHELER (GEORGE)

A Journey into Greece, FIRST EDITION, folding engraved map, 7 engraved plates, numerous engraved illustrations, some light spotting and toning, nineteenth century correspondence with a Wheler descendant [see footnote] pasted on front free endpaper and inside lower cover, contemporary calf, rebacked, worn [Wing W1607; Atabey 1328; Blackmer 1786], folio (295 x 185mm.), William Cademan, Robert Kettlewell and Awnsham Churchill, 1682

Footnotes

Wheler travelled in the company of Jacques Spon, via Constantinople, to Greece in 1675-1676.

Provenance: Granville Wheler Stuart-Menteath (1811-1887), a descendent of George Wheler. Pasted-in are autograph letters sent to (and annotated by) Stuart-Menteath) concerning the author and his work. One (dated 1878) is written by Rev. Edward Hincliffe, a descendent of the Bishop of Durham who had presented a prebental stall in the Cathedral to Wheler; the other (dated 1876) by another Wheler family member providing historical information on George's wife.

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