A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
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Theatre at Erythroe. Straits of Scio.
J.H. Allan. [Captioned and signed to plate.]
[London: Longman & Co., 1843.]
Sepia tinted zincograph (lithograph) heightened in white, sheet 235 x 330mm. 9¼ x 13". Waterstains to lower sheet edge, outside image; sheet slightly trimmed. Overall a fine impression.
Figures at the site of an ancient Greek amphitheatre. The Chios Strait in the Aegean Sea separates the Greek island of Chios from Turkey. From a first edition of John Harrison Allan's folio 'A Pictorial Tour in the Mediterranean' (40 plates). IT was here that the Battle of Chesma was fought between the Russia and Turkey. The Turkish fleet was so conquered by the Russians that it lead to many territories rebelling against Ottoman rule land eventually to the Greek War of Independance.
See Abbey Travel: 200, 2. BL: 000053361.
[Ref: 17706] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
J.H. Allan. [Captioned and signed to plate.]
[London: Longman & Co., 1843.]
Sepia tinted zincograph (lithograph) heightened in white, sheet 235 x 330mm. 9¼ x 13". Waterstains to lower sheet edge, outside image; sheet slightly trimmed. Overall a fine impression.
Figures at the site of an ancient Greek amphitheatre. The Chios Strait in the Aegean Sea separates the Greek island of Chios from Turkey. From a first edition of John Harrison Allan's folio 'A Pictorial Tour in the Mediterranean' (40 plates). IT was here that the Battle of Chesma was fought between the Russia and Turkey. The Turkish fleet was so conquered by the Russians that it lead to many territories rebelling against Ottoman rule land eventually to the Greek War of Independance.
See Abbey Travel: 200, 2. BL: 000053361.
[Ref: 17706] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
Telmessus_Lycia.
I.H. Allan. A.R. Grieve, Zinco.
Printed by J. Grieve, 33, Nicholas Lane. [n.d., c.1845.]
Tinted zincograph with colour added by hand, 375 x 265mm. 14¾ x 10½".
Telmessos (or incorrectly Telmissis) was a flourishing city in Lycia, modern Turkey, on the Gulf of Fethiye. It was famed for its school of diviners, consulted among others by the Lydian king Croesus, prior to declaring war against Cyrus, and by Alexander the Great, when he came to the town after the siege of Halicarnassus. From John Harrison Allan's 'A Pictorial Tour in the Mediterranean'.
See Abbey Travel: 200, 6.
[Ref: 11741] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
I.H. Allan. A.R. Grieve, Zinco.
Printed by J. Grieve, 33, Nicholas Lane. [n.d., c.1845.]
Tinted zincograph with colour added by hand, 375 x 265mm. 14¾ x 10½".
Telmessos (or incorrectly Telmissis) was a flourishing city in Lycia, modern Turkey, on the Gulf of Fethiye. It was famed for its school of diviners, consulted among others by the Lydian king Croesus, prior to declaring war against Cyrus, and by Alexander the Great, when he came to the town after the siege of Halicarnassus. From John Harrison Allan's 'A Pictorial Tour in the Mediterranean'.
See Abbey Travel: 200, 6.
[Ref: 11741] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)