The Middle East & The Levant

Second edition, 4to, engraved portrait frontispiece of Pardoe, additional engraved title, engraved map and 85 plates, original blue cloth gilt, gilt pictorial vignette to upper cover, all edges gilt, light spotting to frontispiece and engraved title and occasionally elsewhere, generally a clean crisp example.

First edition, folio (47 x 37.7 cm), title-page and 12 magnificent hand-coloured aquatint plates by R. Havell after Cartwright, plate of Ali Pacha mounted within ruled border, contemporary dark blue polished half calf gilt over cloth boards, lettered in gilt to upper cover, occasional light marginal soiling and spotting, rubbed.