Title: Memoirs relating to European and Asiatic Turkey, and other countries of the East; edited from manuscript journals, by Robert Walpole, M.A. The second edition
Description: <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">4to. pp. xxii. viii, 615, 14 engraved full-page and folding plates. Signatures: a4 b3 A-Z4 AA-ZZ4 3A-3Z4 4A-4I4. Bound in 3/4 smooth calf, tan buckram sides, uncut. Presentation inscriptions of flyleaves, dated 1851, of a donor to the Minneapolis Antiquarian Society.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">First part of a set of two volumes edited by Robert Walpole, the second being Travels in various countries of the East; being a continuation of Memoirs relating to European and Asiatic Turkey, &amp;c. Edited by The Rev. Robert Walpole, M.A. (London, 1820, see Bib# 9736969 in this collection).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">The present volume (first published by Longmans in 1817, here slightly enlarged) consists of unpublished papers of dr. Sibthorp, dr. Hunt, dr. Hume, and other travelers, with descriptions of antiquities and notes and excursus by the editor. It also contains on pp. 452-57, with plate, Lord Aberdeen’s letter to Walpole (26 May 1817) on two early Greek bas-reliefs in his collection (and now in the British Museum) revealingly misdescribed by Michel Fourmont more than eighty years earlier, and ‘the literary frauds so extensively practised by the Abbé’, together with Walpole’s footnote on the ‘idle and groundless speculations [about Fourmont’s good intentions] that are still permitted to disfigure [the] admirable work’ of later apologists’. This is the true casus belli in the ensuing international dispute over Fourmont’s discoveries and credibility.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_1074399" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>