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600 - 800 GBP
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Description
- Voyage de Paris à Constantinople par bateau à vapeur. Paris: Artus Bertrand [&c.], 1839
first edition, large 8vo (275 x 175mm.), half-title, engraved folding map and 24 plates, vignette illustrations, vellum-backed boards, original printed upper wrapper bound in, text spotted, some plates loose, wrapper with slight loss at edges, upper joint of binding broken
Literature
Blackmer 1075; Contominas 442; Weber I, 297; Atabey 765
Catalogue Note
An account of the first organized steamer cruise to the Levant in 1833. The work, which includes views of Malta, Tinos, Syros, Hydra, Smyrna, Athens and Constantinople, is dedicated to King Otho, whose brother, Maximilian of Bavaria, was among the passengers. See lot 79 for another account of the voyage, by Giraudeau.