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Disraeli, Benjamin. FINE SERIES OF SIXTEEN LONG AUTOGRAPH LETTERS TO HIS FAMILY, SIGNED WITH INITIALS (AND "YOUR MOST AFFECT. BROTHER"; "YOUR MOST AFFEC. SON", ETC), BEING DISRAELI'S LETTERS HOME DURING HIS GRAND TOUR OF THE MEDITERRANEAN IN THE YEARS 1830 AND 1831 to his father Isaac D'Israeli, his sister Sarah, his brother Ralph Disraeli and his mother (apparently his only significant surviving letter to her), describing his journey through the Mediterranean as an experience of renewal and rebirth after his disillusionment with his literary career in England, reporting his travels through Spanish bandit country, describing the beauties of Gibraltar, Cadiz and Seville, especially the Spanish ladies he meets ("...Figaro is in every street, & Rosina on every balcony"...), reporting his experiences in Malta (including smoking a Turkish pipe), revelling in the exoticism of Albania and Greece, drinking with the Bey at Yanina (an important 14-page letter, also describing depredations of war), his encounters with consular officials, the Turkish Grand Vizier, Austrian diplomats, commenting on the death of George IV, responding to news of the Reform Bill, which gives him hope of a seat in Parliament, and reporting the illness of Meredith to his sister Sarah 85 pages, folio and 4to, closely written, including on the autograph address-leaves, postmarks, some red seals, each bifolio mounted at the edge on a guard , with a few typescripts, engraved and other portraits, and engraved views (Geza, Carnac, Tentyra etc), Falmouth, Gibraltar, Cadiz, Seville, Grenada, Malta, Corfu, Prevesa, Athens, Constantinople, Alexandria and Cairo, 1 June 1830- 28 May 1831, some loss to 2 letters (one supplied in a contemporary transcript by the author's brother Ralph, the other evidently defective), a few seal-tears and repairs; with Ralph Disraeli's extra-illustrated copy of his edition of these letters (Home Letters, 1885), the two uniformly bound in nineteenth-century morocco gilt [together with;] Disraeli's passport (issued at Gibraltar, 5 July 1830, for 12 months), made out to Disraeli, William Meredith ("J. Medrith") and one servant, with contemporary stamps and manuscript endorsements documenting their travels in Spain, and 8 autograph letters of condolence by Sarah and Isaac D'Israeli to Georgiana, sister of William Meredith (1831)