WILLIS Parker Nathaniel, “Summer Cruise in the Mediterranean on Board an American Frigate”, Kerr, Doughty & Lapham, Detroit, 1853. FIRST EDITION of a rich early cruise account to the Mediterranean, including Greece, Turkey and the Asia Minor. 

Written by the reputable in travel books American writer Nathaniel Parker Willis, this travelogue include vivid descriptions from various places of Italy (Elba, Piombino, Porto Ferrajo, Naples, Herculaneum, Pompeii, Sicilυ, Palermo, Trieste), The Adriatic, Albania, Austria (Gratz, Vienna), Greece (Corfu, Paxoi, Lefcada, Navarino, Methoni, Kythira, Athens, Piraeus Mytilene), Turkey (Dardanelles, the Sea of Marmara, Gallipoli, Constantinople), Asia Minor and Smyrna. The author is especially attracted by the everyday facts and life habits of the people at the visiting places, creating a very vivid picture of the places he visits. Original paper covers, worn spine with teared joint of the front coves, 16 pages at the beginning and 4 at the end publishers catalogue.