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Estourmel, Joseph, comte de.
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Description
- Journal d'un voyage en Orient. Paris: Crapelet, 1844
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First edition, 2 volumes, large 8vo (252 x 163mm.), half-titles, 160 numbered lithographed plates (including 2 folding plans), errata leaf at end of volume 2, contemporary green morocco-backed boards, spines gilt, [Atabey 408; Blackmer 557; Weber I, 356], internally spotted
Catalogue Note
A work profusely illustrated with lithographs after drawings by the author. Estourmel travelled in Greece, the Levant and Egypt from June 1832 to September 1833, visiting Corfu, Ioannina, Missolonghi, Patras, Corinth, Piraeus, Athens, Rhodes, Smyrna, Chios, Malta and other places in the east.