Leake (William Martin)

The Topography of Athens with some Remarks on its Antiquities, FIRST EDITION, half title, errata leaf, engraved frontispiece, and 8 folding plates and maps, light age yellowing, intermittent foxing, slight offsetting, a little marginal toning, contemporary calf, spine gilt, boards blind tooled, marbled endpapers, marbled fore-edges, spine rubbed with small loss to head, [Atabey 689; Blackmer 971; Weber I, 127], 8vo, John Murray, 1821.

*** Important work on Athens regarded as the basis for modern topographical and archaeological studies of the city.