Lot 08040

Warburton Eliot, “The Crescent and the Cross; or, romance and realities of Eastern Travel”, Hurst and Blackett, London, 1856. 8vo, pp.ix, 350.

A travelogue through Greece, Constantinople, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria & the Holy Land, with two chapters devoted to Greece and the Ionian Islands and references to the Greek Revolution. Frontispiece and 13 wood-engravings in text, including a view of Corfu.

Contemporary binding: half leather, marbled boards & edges. External rubbing, internal occasional spotting.