Craven:”A journey through the Crimea to Constantinople.” London 1789 First edition. Tall in 4to 27x22cm, contemporary full leather rebaked, text and plates clean, complete:327p., frontispiece &6 engraved plates, moderate soiling & few wear to binding, endpapers replaced, overall very good A vivid account of travels to the Levant, Greece, Constantinople and Crimea, written in the form of letters addressed from Lady Craven to her future husband, the Magrave of Anspach. In Constantinople she stayed with Coiseul-Gouffier and the letter forty-five contains comments on his activities as a collector. “Lady Craven is said to have been the first woman that descended into the grotto of Antiparos”. (Cox). She was anyway one of the very first women who published her travel account for the Levant. The nice big plates depict the grotto of Antiparos, Siphnos, a Greek monastery in the bay of Gavrio in Andros, the source of a river in the Crimea, an Ottoman boat and a Turkish burial ground. Cox I pp. 197-98, Atabey 297 Blackmer 424.