1854 Diary in Turkish and Greek Waters

CARLISLE, George William Frederick Howard, 7th Earl of. Diary in Turkish and Greek Waters. Third Edition. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854.

8vo. 353 pp. + publisher's catalogue of new books. Original publisher's brown cloth, spine lettered in blind, boards with blind-ruled borders. Good condition. Slight loss to the head of the spine with short tears along both joints; binding sound but with slight cracking to the front inner hinge; cloth lightly soiled and rubbed, corners gently bumped. Internally clean.

The third edition of Lord Carlisle's lively account of his travels through the eastern Mediterranean, recording observations made during a voyage through the Ottoman Empire and Greece. Combining descriptions of landscapes, antiquities, politics, and contemporary society, the work reflects the mid-nineteenth-century British fascination with the Eastern Mediterranean in the decades following Greek independence. Issued in the publisher's cloth binding and complete with the publisher's catalogue at the rear.