NEWTON Charles Thomas, "Travels & Discoveries in the Levant", Day and Son, London, 1865. FIRST EDITION. 2 Volumes in one. 8vo, pp.xiv+360 & xiv+275. Complete. Richly illustrated with 41 plates (11 maps/plans). Full leather, boards and spine decorated in black and gilt. Wear along joints and edges, interior clean and tight. Newton, British archaeologist and consul in Mitylene (1852) & Rhodes (1853-1854), carried out important excavations in the Levant such as at ancient Halicarnassus between 1852-1859. This is the popular account of his archaeological works in Asia Minor, including an accurate account of his travels in many Greek islands, such as Lesvos, Rhodes and Kalymnos. The plates include albumen prints of antiquities by Francis Bedford and etchings after very early photographs by Spackman and Colnaghi. Blackmer 1193, Weber 636, Contominas 503, Atabey 869.