[Greece - Turkey]. - Lot 14

[Greece - Turkey]. NEWTON, Charles Thomas. Travels & discoveries in the Levant. London, Day & Son, 1865. 2 volumes in-8. XIV-(2)-360 pp. 17 plates including a folding frontispiece map and XIV-(2)-275 pp. 24 plates including a folding frontispiece map. Publisher's green percaline, title, author, tomaison and publisher gilt on spine, cold-stamped motifs on boards (discreet wear to headpieces, a few freckles in first section of volumes, then anecdotal throughout). A fine copy of the first edition of archaeologist Charles Thomas Newton's voyage to the Levant. The illustration consists of a folding map as frontispiece to each volume, 12 lithographed plates, 20 plates, including one folding plate, mostly engraved after photographs by Colnaghi and Spackman, 6 plans, and one folding map, making a total of 41 plates and numerous in-text woodcut figures. Charles Thomas Newton (1816-1894) was a British archaeologist who carried out excavations in southwest Turkey and, in 1856-1857, uncovered the remains of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. He was the first curator of Greek and Roman antiquities at the British Museum in London. Ex libris engraved with the arms of V. Duchâtaux advocati remensis 1887.