Author: Yorke, Philip, Second Earl of Hardwicke, Hon. C. Yorke, G. H. Rooke, J. Green, D. Wray, J. Heaton, W. Heberden, H. Coventry, J. Lawry, Catharine Talbot, T. Birch, & S. Salter. [LARGE-PAPER COPY].
Title: Athenian Letters: or, the Epistolary Correspondence of an Agent of the King of Persia, residing at Athens during the Peloponnesian War. Containing the history of the times, in despatches to the Ministers of State at the Persian Court.
Description: London: Printed for T. Cadell Jun. And W. Davies in the Strand, 1798. 0. Hardcover. Folio. Two volumes. I: lxii, [ii], 436pp.; II: xv, 466pp. I: []2, a4-g4, h2, *B4-Z4, AA4-ZZ4, 3A4-3I4, 3K2; II: []4, a4, B4-Z4, AA4-ZZ4, 3A4-3N4, 3O2. Large-paper copy. With the half-titles present. Contemporary brown diced morocco, spines repaired. With 2 frontispiece portraits, a map of Greece and 7 engravings in volume I and 5 engravings in volume II. From the libraries of Mark Masterman Sykes, with his arms on the upper cover and his ink note on the front free endpaper, and the Earl of Carysfort, and his Elton Hall bookplate. Sykes, Catalogue of the Splendid, Curious, and Extensive Library of the Late Sir Mark Masterman Sykes, Bart. 296. Very Good.

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