Remarks On The Site Of Troy, And On The Trojan Plain. Founded On Personal Observations Made In 1817. Bound With: Observations On The Round Towers Of Ireland. Author's Own Copies. Greg, Robert Hyde Foreign Travel, Exploration, Topography

The Round Towers of Ireland Printed for the Author, Manchester, 1824. The first work with double-page folding map ( & one leaf partly) detached, 4to, 92-pages; the half-title retained. The second work with lithographic frontispiece and two lithographic plates; 42-pages.The two works bound together 4to (9 1/4 x 7 3/4 inches), contemporary binder's cloth, binding rubbed. The Author's own copies with his engraved armorial bookplate on front pastedown. Both works are very rare.The Manchester liberal politician and manufacturer Robert Hyde Greg [1795-1875) was sent on a grand tour of Europe before joining his family’s prosperous textile business. His dissertation on Troy is dedicated to Prince Louis William of Hesse Hombourg, whom the author accompanied on his travels in Greece and Asia Minor.