Chandler Richard: Travels in Asia Minor or an Account of a Tour made at the expense of the Society of Dilettanti, Oxford Clarendon Press 1775 First edition, print run of just 500 copies. In Quarto, complete 283p. and the folding map of Greek Archipelago and Asia Minor coastline, contemporary leather over boards, upper joint split,text clean and bright,overall in very good condition, a nice copy. Chandler visited the Levant with Revett and Pars and spent almost two years in western Asia Minor and mainland Greece, returning in 1766.This was the first expedition solely at the expense of the Society of Dilettanti and this book is based in Chandler s journals. It was the first time ever that a scientific mission visited and discovered the ancient Greek cities and sites of the Anatolian coastline. The account is also precious for the detailed information for the peoples and society of the contemporary Anatolia of that time, still completely unexplored. Atabey 215, Blackmer 318