GRIFFITHS, Julius. Travels in Europe, Asia Minor, and

GRIFFITHS, Julius. Travels in Europe, Asia Minor, and Arabia. London and Edinburgh: for T. Cadell and W. Davies; and Peter Hill, 1805. 4to (267 x 203 mm). Half–title, engraved portrait frontispiece, large foldout map, 4 engraved plates, including two folding (spotting or browning to plates). Modern half niger antique over original textured purple cloth (endpapers renewed, covers sunned, very occasional spots of marginal staining or browning). Provenance: Barbier de Meynard (rubberstamp on 3D2 verso; also stamp removal on title near imprint); Archibald John Wallace (neat contemporary signature on front flyleaf). FIRST EDITION, of Griffiths personal account of his travels to the Orient “disguised as a Greek in order to collect ‘accurate and unbiased’ information”. The work is dedicated to the travel writer Elizabeth Craven. Atabey 530; Blackmer 755.