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Le Chevalier, Jean Baptiste.
Estimate
500 - 700 GBP
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Description
- Voyage de la Propontide et du Pont-Euxin. Paris: Dentu, an VIII [1800]
first edition, first issue, 2 volumes, 8vo (210 x 125mm.), half-titles, 6 folding engraved maps, 8pp. publisher's catalogue at end of volume 1, original pink wrappers with printed label on spines, uncut, housed in a modern red morocco-backed book-style box, joints of wrappers splitting
Literature
Blackmer 995; Contominas 398; Weber II, 649; Atabey 697
Catalogue Note
Having served in Choiseul-Gouffier's embassy in Constantinople, in 1787 Le Chevalier accompanied Alexander Ipsilanti, the hospodar of Moldavia, to Jassy. He spent several months there, which possibly inspired this work on the regions around the Black Sea.