Travels in Lycia, Milyas, and the Cibyratis, in company with the late rev. E.T. Daniell
Author: Lt. Thomas Abel Brimage Spratt and Prof. Edward Forbes.
Year: 1847
Edition: First edition
Publisher: London; John van Voorst
Two volumes, modern half calf, 8vo. The spines divided in six compartments by five raised and gilt decorated bands. Maroon labels in the second and fourth compartment of each volume, lettered in gilt. The other compartments gilt tooled.
Collation vol. I: pp. xxiv, 202, complete with half title and an engraved frontispiece.
Illustrated with 13 plans, of which one double page and 5 lithographed plates plus 10 woodcuts in the text.
Final blank preserved.
Collation vol. II: pp. viii, 332, 4 (ads), complete with half title and an engraved frontispiece.
Illustrated with 1 double page plan and 6 lithographed plates of which one double page and one folding, as well as a large folding map which partly has been coloured by hand plus 11 woodcuts in the text.
Both volumes also illustrated with numerous woodcuts in the text.
Atabey 1173, Blackmer 1589, Weber I, 404.
Acquired from Forum Auctions, their sale 31st March 2022, lot nr. 125.
Thomas Abel Brimage Spratt was a British Royal Navy officer, hydrographer, geologist, and archaeologist. He is particularly important for his detailed surveying and scientific work in the Mediterranean.
He was born 11 May 1811, at East Teignmouth, Devon and died in Tunbridge Wells, Kent on 12 March 1888.
In 1827 he joined the Royal Navy and specialized in naval surveying, spending most time of his career charting the Mediterranean. He was not just a naval officer, ending his career in the rank of vice-admiral, but his surveys led him too in such scientific fields like geology and archaeology.
He worked with the naturalist Edward Forbes, studying the distribution of marine life at different depths. Together they published this book. Afterwards Spratt investigated the geology and archaeology of several other isles and sites in the eastern and south-eastern part of the Mediterranean.
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