CLARIDGE Richard Tappin, “A Guide dowm the Danube, from Paris to Marseilles… and from Vienna to Constantinople, Smyrna, Athens, the Morea, and the Ionian Islands…”, London, F. C. Westley, London, / Calignani, Paris, 1839. 12mo, pp. xliii,292 + a folding map. Original green cloth, with title blind-stamped in gilt on front board. Scarce travel guide of Captain Claridge, representing one of the earliest attempts to reach the Danube, Greece, Asia Minor and Constantinople by utilizing the recent socio-political developments and "the establishment of steam navigation throughout the entire length of the Danube, the Black Sea, the Bosphorous, the Arhipeligo, and the Adriatic", which "converted what was hitherto a journey of toil and danger into one of unmixed pleasure and enjoyment". Second enlarged edition (first printed in 1837). The first chapter includes interesting information for the potential travelers such as “passports, money, luggage, sea sickness” etc.