A tour in dalmatia, albania and montenegro; with an historical sketch of the republic of ragusa, from the earliest times down to its final fall.
London.
Richard Bentley, 1859.
First edition.
8vo.
viii, 348pp. With a half-title. Contemporary gilt-tooled red calf, brown morocco lettering-piece, marbled edges. Lightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers, contemporary inked gift inscription to verso of FFEP, foxed.
The sole edition of the the only published work of William Frederick Wingfield (1813-1874), a travelogue, presented in epistolary form, of a journey undertaken in 1853 from Zagreb, down the coast of Dalmatia (present day Croatia), to Albania. Wingfield reports primarily on the history of Ragusa (Dubrovnik), but also includes an account of the plight of the Catholic population in the city of Shkodra in Ottoman controlled Albania.
£ 375.00
Antiquates Ref: 18994
