Julius Griffiths, M.D.
Travels to Europe, Asia Minor, and Arabia, 1805

Travels to Europe, Asia Minor, and Arabia, 1805

renewed hardcover

Published by London Cadell, 1805

 First edition, 4to, xx, 396pp., large folding map, 4 engraved plates,

Griffiths traveled out to Constantinople with the philosopher and social reformer Jeremy Bentham in 1785, before going on to travel in the Levant disguised as a Greek. He was joined on his journey by David Hays who died on the journey, and this event is depicted in a folding plate. Griffiths records his travels through Constantinople, Scutari, Mytelene, Chios, Smyrna, Aleppo, Basrah, and down the Persian Gulf to Muscat.