Travels & Discoveries in the Levant.

£450 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

The rare issue with 12 original mounted photographs in place of lithographs, noticed by Navari in her catalogue of Henry Blackmer’s collection.Newton was appointed as vice-consul at Mitylene in 1852 and later acting consul at Rhodes. Following his excavations at Kalymnos (1854-55) he supervised the British government’s expeditions to Asia Minor which saw the excavation of one of the seven wonders of the world: the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus. Newton later went on to become Keeper of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the British Museum. Blackmer, 1193.

• Year: 1865

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