Narrative of a Journey from Constantinople to England. Second Edition
by WALSH (Rev. Rorbert):
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- Hardcover
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London: Frederick Westley and A. H. Davis..., 1828. 8vo, 184 x 110, pp. [vii] viii - xii, 445 [446 Directions for placing the Plates], folding engraved map opposite title-page, 5 full-page engraved plates in text, engraved plate of Hebrew opposite page 427, folding engraved plate of The Yafta opposite page 429, folding engraved map of author's route at end of text, with tear in one corner near gutter, contemporary half calf, marbled boards, gilt spine. A very good copy. The author and sometime curate Robert Walsh (1772 - 1852) published a History of the City of Dublin in 1815 and went on to write several other books, including Notices of Brazil (1830). This is one of three books in which Contstantinople figures, and this one, like the others, was favourably reviewed. The Eclectic Review pronounced it "unpretending and delightful," with" distinct and extensive information," and concludes that "the most interesting people whom the author met with in his journey, are the Saxon refugees of the Transylvanian heptarchy, of whose history and manners he gives us an amusing account."
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- Narrative of a Journey from Constantinople to England. Second Edition
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- WALSH (Rev. Rorbert):
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Frederick Westley and A. H. Davis..., 1828
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- Travel sociology prose
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