TRAVELS AND DISCOVERIES IN THE LEVANT (TWO VOLUME COMPLETE)
London, England: Day & Son, 1865. Hardcover. Matching set of two volumes: Small quarto, 10.25 in. x 5.5 in. Volume I: pp. xiv, [2], 360; Volume II: xiv, [2], 275. Illustrated with 41 plates and maps, nine of which fold-out, and 28 woodcuts. Contemporary blue-green cloth with decorative frames stamped in blind. Bright gilt lettering on spine. Rubbing to extremities with frayed and chipped spine ends. Corners nudged and showing. Unmarked interiors. Light age-toning to pages. Good. Item #88698
In 1856–1857, British archaeologist C.T. Newton (1816-1894) achieved the great archaeological exploit of his life by the discovery of the remains of the mausoleum, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world... The results were described by Newton in his History of Discoveries at Halicarnassus (1862–1863), written in conjunction with R. P. Pullan, and in his Travels and Discoveries in the Levant (1865). These works included particulars of other important discoveries, especially at Branchidae, where he disinterred the statues which had anciently lined the Sacred Way, and at Cnidos, where Pullan, acting under his direction, found the Lion of Knidos now in the British Museum. In 1860, he was named consul at Rome, but was the following year recalled to take up the newly created post of keeper of Greek and Roman antiquities at the British Museum. (from Wikipedia).
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