THROUGH MACEDONIA TO THE ALBANIAN LAKES.
by Walker, Mary Adelaide
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
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About This Item
London: Chapman and Hall. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1864. First Edition. Hardcover. Color lithos; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Modern buckram, morocco spine label. With 12 litho plates (4 colored, 8 tinted) , some with short tears to edge. [Blackmer 1757; Weber 628]. A few marginal tears well away from design or text. Mrs Walker joined her brother, Chaplain to the English community at Constantinople, shortly after the Crimean War, c. 1856, and remained in the Levant for over forty years. During the 1860s she made several tours through what is now Northern Greece and the borders of Yugoslavia and Albania. A very interesting work based on several tours during the early 1860s through what is now Northern Greece, Albania, Macedonia and the Serb Republic. .
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- Title
- THROUGH MACEDONIA TO THE ALBANIAN LAKES.
- Author
- Walker, Mary Adelaide
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Chapman and Hall
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1864
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