155 - [Turkey]. CRAVEN, Elizabeth.

[Turkey]. CRAVEN, Elizabeth. A Journey to the Crimea and Constantinople in 1786, by Miladi Craven. New edition, with map and engravings. Paris: Maradan, Year II of the French Republic (1793). In-8, (2) ff., 306 pp., (1) f., 7 black etchings, including a fold-out map. Speckled fawn sheepskin, smooth decorated spine, tan title label, yellow edges speckled with blue (spine and lower cover worn, slight rubbing, corners rounded, very slight foxing). Illustrated with 7 black fold-out plates, including a map of Crimea engraved by Tardieu. The famous *Voyage de Lady Craven*, published the same year as the original English edition. Our edition: The Maradan edition is considered the true original French edition, as it is the only one mentioned in the *Journal des savants* of June–July 1789. The London address is fictitious and a result of the Anglomania prevalent at the time. Elisabeth Berkeley, who became Craven and later the morganatic Margravine of Ansbach-Bayreuth, known as Lady Craven (1750–1828), was an English woman of letters and a great traveler.