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Description : Books: Clarke (Edward Daniel). Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa, 3 parts in 6 vols. (part I, 2nd ed., parts II-III, 1st eds.), 1811-23, 181 engraved plates, portraits, maps & plans only (lacking plate 15 called for in vol. IV although no evidence of it bound-in, plates 21 & 22 in vol. V on one sheet although listed separately), a few plates trimmed affecting imprint, illustrations, occasional offsetting and spotting, one rear endpaper lacking, together with The Life and Remains of the Rev. Edward Daniel Clarke, Professor of Mineralogy in the University of Cambridge, 1st ed., 1824, engraved portrait frontispiece, occasional spotting, bookplate of Sir John Whittaker, uniformly bound in contemporary gilt ruled diced calf, rebacked in modern calf, black labels and gilt decoration, 4to. Clarke set off for Scandinavia with his student John Marten Cripps in May, 1799. In 1800 they travelled overland, via Moscow, to Constantinople continuing on to Syria and Palestine in 1801. In the Troad they met Lusieri and Preaux, who were working for Lord Elgin. Preaux sold a number of drawings to Clark, and many of the plates in Clarke's work are based on these drawings, Clarke continued on to Egypt with Abercromby's force, and joined W.R. Hamilton, Elgin's secretary, in a self-constituted deputation to prevent Egyptian antiquities from being carried off by the French. From Egypt he went to Greece, where he managed to secure the colossal statue - the so-called Ceres - from Eleusis, and a number of other antiquities (Blackmer 365). (7)
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