This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1839 edition. Excerpt: ...to lie down until the gusts had ceased: the very rocks of marble seemed cut by it, for they stood in shivered points, through which the wind hissed fiercely. We passed much snow, and were visited by a storm of small pieces of ice, of broken forms and transparent; this was succeeded by beating rain and snow as ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1839 edition. Excerpt: ...to lie down until the gusts had ceased: the very rocks of marble seemed cut by it, for they stood in shivered points, through which the wind hissed fiercely. We passed much snow, and were visited by a storm of small pieces of ice, of broken forms and transparent; this was succeeded by beating rain and snow as we descended towards the valley of Alaysoon, where in two hours we arrived thoroughly drenched. However, hearing of some ruins within a few miles, I risked the repetition of the storm, and walked about three miles again up the mountain, through a craggy wilderness, into which I feared the peasant took me only to see some tombs cut in the rocks, as the situation appeared too high and dreary for the living of any age. Tombs we did pass, and then climbed up steep hills which were covered with broken tiles, crockery of terra-cotta, lamps, jugs, pieces of glass, etc., but none of sufficient value to be worth picking up. At length I saw many squared stones which had been rolled down the hills, and above me on all the overhanging rocks were the foundations of walls. What was my surprise to find, on ascending, the extensive remains of a superb city, containing seven or eight temples, and three other long buildings, ornamented with cornices and columns, and with rows of pedestals on either side! I know not what these buildings may have been, but from their forming long avenues I imagine they were agoras. On the side of a higher hill is one of the most beautiful and perfect theatres I ever saw or heard of; the seats and the greater part of the proscenium remain; the walls of the front have partly fallen, but the splendid cornices and statuary, are but little broken. I walked almost round, in the arched lobby, entering as the people did above two...
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Not Stated. Good. The illustrated and scarce first edition of Fellows' account of his excavation of ancient Lycian cities in Asia Minor. The scarce first edition of British archaeologist and explorer Charles Fellows' account of his 1838 expedition to Asia Minor. Best known for his numerous expeditions in what is present-day Turkey, the publication of this work roused such interest that Lord Palmerston, at the request of the British Museum, asked the British consul at Constantinople to obtain permission from the sultan to export a number of Lycian works of art to England. Illustrated with twenty-one engraved plates, including a double page map and double page plate. Collated, complete. A fascinating and scarce first edition in which Fellows describes the excavation of Xanthos and other Lycian cities in Asia Minor, discovering ruins which had existed prior to 300 B.C. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with light discolouration to back strip. Bumping to board perimeters. Hinges strained, with boards a touch tender. Front free endpaper detached. Internally, binding lightly strained to centre of text block, with one plate detached. Pages bright, with light spotting throughout, most concentrated to plate perimeters. Good.
