TAYLOR B., "Travels in Greece and Russia with an excursion to Crete", New York: G.P. Putnam, 1859. First Edition. In small 8vo, [vii], 426 p.p., [8]. Engraved title page and frontis. Regions to be discovered in this travelogue include Crete, Athens, Corinth, the dorian mountains, Thessaly, Euboea, Dalmatia, Cracow, Warsaw, Central Russia, Moscow, St. Petersburg etc. Original blue pebbled cloth; heavily sunned at spine and edges; gilt tooling and titling on spine, blind tooled panels to boards, bumped corners and extremities. Small damp stain to front board. Some pencil markings to endpapers; ex libris label on front endpaper, perforated stamps on first three pages. Foxing throughout, but clean and tight inside. Good copy overall.