Craven Elizabeth Lady, “Voyage de Milady Craven a Constantinople, en 1786”, Paris, Maradan, 1789.

8vo, pp.443, [5]. Complete including a folding map of Crimea, and 4 folding plates, among them one from the Antiparos grotto, a view from Siphnos and a Greek monastery in the bay of Gavrio in Andros. 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. She was anyway one of the very first woman who published her travel account for the Levant.

Contemporary full calf, spine ornamented in gilt, title on red Morocco strip. External rubbing, bumped corners with small losses. Internal spotting. Ex-libris “Βιβλιοθήκη Σπ. Λοβέρδου” in gilt on pastedown. Edition in French printed the same year as the First edition in original English. Atabey refers to another Paris 1789 edition, printed by Durand.

Atabey 298, Blackmer 424 (English 1789 edition).