![[TRAVEL] – [GREECE] – CHANDLER, R. Reize door Griekenland, ondernomen op Kosten van het Genootschap van Dilettanti, [..]. Uit het Engelsch vertaald, en met eenige aantékeningen vermeerderd, door O.R.F.W. Winkelman. [Preface by M. Tydeman].](https://gcp-la8-storage-cdn.lot-art.com/public/upl/28/TRAVEL-GREECE-CHANDLER-R-Reize-door-Griekenland-ondernomen-op-Kosten-van-het-Genootschap-van-Dilettanti-Uit-het-Engelsch-vert_6410947c700d4-full-91102800_1678808188.jpg "[TRAVEL] – [GREECE] – CHANDLER, R. Reize door Griekenland, ondernomen op Kosten van het Genootschap van Dilettanti, [..]. Uit het Engelsch vertaald, en met eenige aantékeningen vermeerderd, door O.R.F.W. Winkelman. [Preface by M. Tydeman].")
[TRAVEL] – [GREECE] – CHANDLER, R. Reize door Griekenland, ondernomen op Kosten van het Genootschap van Dilettanti, [..]. Uit het Engelsch vertaald, en met eenige aantékeningen vermeerderd, door O.R.F.W. Winkelman. [Preface by M. Tydeman].
Description
Te Utrecht, Bij G. van den Brink, Jansz. [..], 1779, LXII,457,[1] pp. With 7 fold. engraved maps/ plans by O. Lindeman after i.a. Th. Kitchin. Large 8vo (ca. 22 x 13,5 cm.), late 18th-cent. half-calf, gilt ribbed spine with mor. letterpiece, uncut.
Footnote
¶ Cf. Cox (A Reference Guide to the Literature of Travel) I, p. 232 & Weber (Voyages and Travels in Greece) 554. Very rare first edition (printed in Utrecht “Ter Boekdrukkerije van G. van der Veer en Zoon”) of a Dutch translation by the Dutch school-teacher O.R.F.W. Winckelman with a preface by the Dutch lawyer & historian Meinard Tydeman (1741-1825) of a late 18th-cent. travel report by the English classical scholar Richard Chandler (1738-1810) of which the first English edition, titled “Travels in Greece [..]” was published in Oxford in 1776. “Chandler, who was a good Greek archaeologist, was sent to Greece in 1764 by the Society of Dilettanti to copy inscriptions [..]” (cited from Cox). Ex bibliotheca Anselm van den Bogaerde (1776-1866, Belgian bibliophile) with his letterpress book-plate mounted on upper paste-down. Ex bibliotheca Dr. Maria Frederika Jongkees-Vos (1933-2018, Dutch archaeologist). – Binding sl. rubbed/ worn along extremities, occ. sl. foxed/ browned, but nevertheless in good condition.
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Te Utrecht, Bij G. van den Brink, Jansz. [..], 1779, LXII,457,[1] pp. With 7 fold. engraved maps/ plans by O. Lindeman after i.a. Th. Kitchin. Large 8vo (ca. 22 x 13,5 cm.), late 18th-cent. half-calf, gilt ribbed spine with mor. letterpiece, uncut.
Footnote
¶ Cf. Cox (A Reference Guide to the Literature of Travel) I, p. 232 & Weber (Voyages and Travels in Greece) 554. Very rare first edition (printed in Utrecht “Ter Boekdrukkerije van G. van der Veer en Zoon”) of a Dutch translation by the Dutch school-teacher O.R.F.W. Winckelman with a preface by the Dutch lawyer & historian Meinard Tydeman (1741-1825) of a late 18th-cent. travel report by the English classical scholar Richard Chandler (1738-1810) of which the first English edition, titled “Travels in Greece [..]” was published in Oxford in 1776. “Chandler, who was a good Greek archaeologist, was sent to Greece in 1764 by the Society of Dilettanti to copy inscriptions [..]” (cited from Cox). Ex bibliotheca Anselm van den Bogaerde (1776-1866, Belgian bibliophile) with his letterpress book-plate mounted on upper paste-down. Ex bibliotheca Dr. Maria Frederika Jongkees-Vos (1933-2018, Dutch archaeologist). – Binding sl. rubbed/ worn along extremities, occ. sl. foxed/ browned, but nevertheless in good condition.
