A Description of Some Ancient Monuments, with Inscriptions, Still Existing in Lydia and Phrygia, Several of Which are Supposed to be Tombs of Early Kings

A Description of Some Ancient Monuments, with Inscriptions, Still Existing in Lydia and Phrygia, Several of Which are Supposed to be Tombs of Early Kings

John Robert Steuart

London, J. Bohn, 1842


Folio, 50 x 35 cm. Rebound in fine 1/4 leather over marbled boards. 5 raised bands. Gilt ruled. Marbled end pages. 17 plates, including lithographic frontis.  Mounted lithographs.  Errata slip bound in.  Small stamp on ad page.  Light foxing.  <br> Steuart traveled in Asia Minor in 1837, between Smyrna, Kutahia and Brussa.  He made drawings of his archeological findings, engraved here by C. Deangelis.  Scarce early archeology.  Blackmer 1609; Atabey 1176.   Subjects     Lydia (Kingdom) -- Antiquities.    Phrygia -- Antiquities.    Antiquities. Turkey

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