Robert Walpole: Memoirs relating to European and Asiatic Turkey and other countries of the East.London 1818 Second edition, small Folio,contemporary cloth upper part of spine remade, text clean and bright,overall in very good condition. Robert Walpole (1781-1856) was a classical scholar who soon after leaving Cambridge in very early 19th century travelled in Greece. While returning in 1807 he presented a marble dramatic mask sculpture from the theater of Stratonicaea to the University Library. He published this work which is a compilation of several, unpublished manuscripts up to then, travel accounts for Greece and the Levant, completed by descriptions of antiquities and notes by Walpole himself. It includes his own lengthy travel account of Mani and the Morea, travel accounts of Sibthorp of Phocida, Asia Minor, Attica, Limnos and Evia,Carlyle letters from Constantinople, many other mostly smaller accounts for Athens,including the very detailed topography of Athens by Hawkins,same s traveler account for Tempi, Haygarth panoramic view of Athens with a fine huge early Panorama of Attica in four folded plates and accounts for Crete, the Troad etc.A very important publication which saved precious manuscript material. Scarce Atabey 1310,Blackmer 1762