Lot 15: Blackwood (Lady Alicia). Scutari, the Bosphorus

Blackwood (Lady Alicia). Scutari, the Bosphorus and the Crimea, 2 vols., Ventnor, Isle of Wight, 1857, twenty-one tinted litho. views, including two tinted litho. titles, some double-page panoramas (complete as list), list of contents to one vol. with large horizontal tear without loss, and a folding page of the Barrack Hospital, Scutari, with shorter vertical tear near centrefold, without loss, several folds restrengthened, some minor soiling to extrems., orig. printed stiff wrappers with linen backstrips, some soiling and chipped with minor wear to edges, slim folio Abbey, Travel 242. Blackmer 148. Atabey 113. First and only edition. Dedicated to Florence Nightingale, to whom Lady Blackwood and her husband offered their assistance during the Crimean War. (2)