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London: G.G. and J. Robinson, 1789. First edition, 4to, pp.[vi], 327, [1, directions to the binder]. With a folding map and 6 engraved plates, 1 of which folding. A very good copy in contemporary speckled calf, neatly recased. Faint rubbing to extremities, light foxing to first few leaves. A couple notes to margins by a previous owner. A fascinating account by Elizabeth Craven (1750-1828), a leading lady of her day, made up of letters to her then illicit partner Charles Alexander, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1736-1806). Craven was a controversial figure: at the age of 16 she had been forced to marry William Craven, 6th Baron Craven. Both were open about the numerous affairs they had with different partners and their dislike for each other. They split permanently, while still married, when Elizabeth was just 29 and already mother of seven children. It was not long after that she and Alexander started their relationship, but they could only marry in 1791 after William Craven died. These letters…
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A Journey through the Crimea to Constantinople. In a series of letters... to his Serene Highness the Margrave of Brandebourg, Anspach, and Bareith. Written in the year 1786.
by Craven, Elizabeth
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Travels in Circassia, Krim Tartary, &c. including a steam voyage down the Danube, from Vienna to Constantinople and round the Black Sea in 1836.
by Spencer, Edmund
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London: Henry Colburn, 1837. First edition. Two volumes, 8vo, pp. xxxvii, [1, list of illustrations], 355, [1, printer's device], [8, publisher's adverts]; xiii, [1, list of illustrations], 425, [1, blank], [2, publisher's adverts]; with 4 lithographed plates, 2 of which are hand-coloured frontispieces, 2 folding maps, 5 pages of engraved music, and 17 engraved illustrations in the text. A very good copy in original cloth, blind frame and panelling to boards, gilt lettering and illustration to spine. Corners and spine bumped, cloth slightly faded, upper inner hinge of volume one fragile, lower joint of volume two has a small split but firm. Light foxing, 4cm tear (neatly repaired) to hinge of larger folding map not affecting map surface. This work is an interesting account of Ottoman Turkey and Russia at a time of increasing military tension by prolific nineteenth-century travel author Edmund Spencer. This is the first of four accounts Spencer eventually published about his numerous…
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