Poullet, sieur.

First edition, 12mo (140 x 82mm.), [36], 454pp., 3 folding engraved plates, privilege leaf with errata on verso and fly-title both preceding text, modern red morocco-backed boards, [Weber II, 318; Goldsmiths' 1832], lacking 2 maps called for by Weber (but this copy apparently with 2 additional preliminary leaves), somewhat browned and spotted, title browned and chipped (and with slight loss of imprint), lacks final leaf (presumably blank)

Very rare. The work is not recorded in Atabey, Blackmer or Contominas and does not appear on ABPC as having being sold at auction in the last 35 years. It describes a journey east by way of Ragusa, Bosna (presumably Sarajevo), Belgrade, Sofia, Mount Athos, Lemnos, Adrianople (Edirne) and finally Constantinople, commenting on the manners, customs and characteristics of particularly the Turks, but also the Greeks and Armenians. There are additional chapters on Turkish religion, government and warfare, ending with a history of Dutch and English commerce in the Levant.

A second volume appeared in the following year describing his journey further eastwards. Pinkerton, in his General Collection of... Voyages and Travels (1814), describes it as a "scarce work [which] contains a very good account for the time it was published".