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William Macmichael: Journey from Moscow to Constantinople in the years 1817,1818.London 1819
First edition, in large Quarto, contemporary leather over boards, upper joint weak, complete, 6 fine aquatints 272p.,text clean and bright,some very light spotting in very few pages, overall in very good condition.
Macmichael travel began in Moscow in December 1817, he traveled south crossed into Moldavia and Wallachia, stopping in...

Peter Laurent: Recollections of a Classical Tour through Various Parts of Greece, Turkey, and Italy.London 1822
Second expanded edition, large 8vo,complete in two volumes and 4 fine colored aquatints,later leather over boards,text clean and bright, overall in very good condition.
Peter Edmund Laurent (1796-1837) was not a typical Lord on a Grand Tour. He was a polyglot and scholar. He reportedly spoke nearly every Western...

Franz Wilhelm Sieber: Travels in the island of Crete in the year 1817.London 1823
First edition in English, large in 8vo,contemporary red boards, text with some scattered foxing in few pages, generally clean and bright, complete 118p. and two engraved plates, overall in very good condition.
Franz Wilhelm Sieber (1789-1844) was an Austrian naturalist and botanist. His journey to Crete was the first leg of a massive world tour. He...

Leicester Stanhope: Greece in 1823 and 1824 being a series of letters on the Greek Revolution written during a visit to that country. London 1824
First edition, in 8vo, contemporary full leather rubbed upper cover almost detached,complete,368p.,colored frontis, five facsimiles letters, text clean and bright,overall in almost very good condition
Stanhope was a Philhellene officer who fought in Greece.Unlike many soldiers who...

Hermann Reignanum: Das alte Megaris: Ein Beitrag zur Alterthumskunde Griechenlands Berlin 1825
First edition and first book devoted to Megara, in 8vo, contemporary hard boards slightly trimmed,text clean and bright, complete 184p.,two folded maps and a folding letterpress plate, the plate contain at its blank back additionally an extensive (around 700 words, clearly from a contemporary scholar ) manuscript text in German linking the...

Fermin y Morgaez: La Turquia o Theatro de la Guerra presente descrita. Madrid 1828
First edition.Small 8vo,15x10cm.Contemporary fine green Spanish leather over boards,spine richly gilt. Complete [23],342p.,one lithographed plate, an almost fine copy.
Fermin Caballero y Morgaez (1800-1876) was a Spanish journalist,geographer and later liberal politician. In his youth he traveled to Greece in 1824, after the crash of the Spanish...

Ernst von Shork: Das Volk und Reich der Osmanen in besonderer Darstellung ihrer Kriegs versassung und Kriegswesens. Pirna 1829
First edition, in 8v0,contemporary leather over boards,head of spine pressed,text clean and bright,complete 302p.,overall in very good condition.
Das Volk und Reich der Osmanen,The People and Empire of the Ottomans, is a fascinating military and sociological study.Ernst von Skork was a former military...

Josiah Brewer: A Residence at Constantinople, in the Year 1827: With Notes to the Present Time. New Haven 1830
First edition, in 8vo,contemporary full leather, some spotting throughout,complete,the folding view of Constantinople with tear on a fold and somehow foxed,overall in very good condition
This account describe the first major American missionary perspective on the Ottoman Empire and the newly born Greek state.A strongly...

Adolphe Slade: Records of Travels in Turkey, Greece, etc., and of a Cruise in the Black Sea, with the Capitan Pasha, in the Years 1829, 1830, and 1831.Philadelphia-Baltimore 1833
First American edition, in 8vo,complete in two volumes, contemporary leather over boards, spine faded with some leather cover gone, text clean with very few sporadic spotting in some pages, overall in almost very good condition.
Slade was a Lieutenant in...

HENRY ELLIS: ELGIN AND PHIGALIAN MARBLES. LONDON 1833-1846
First edition of volume two, second extended edition of volume one, in 8vo,complete in two volumes, contemporary uniform cloth richly gilt,text and plates clean and bright,very richly illustrated with one hundred seventy four (174) illustrations mostly in the text, overall in very good condition, a fine rare set of one of the very first detailed publications of British Museum...

Von Arnim: Flüchtige Bemerkungen eines flüchtigen Reisenden,1.Reise von Neapel durch Apulien und die Ionischen Inseln nach Athen,2.Ausenthalt im Athen,Reise uber Syra und Smyrna nach Konstantinopel,3.Ausenthalt im Konstantinopel Reise uber das Schwartze Meer nach der Moldau….Berlin 1838
First edition of the two later travels,second of the first, separate pagination of the accounts, in small 8vo, contemporary boards, spine sunned,...

WILLIAM JAMES CUMMING: Notes of a Wanderer, in Search of Health, through Italy, Egypt, Greece, Turkey, and up the Danube.LONDON 1839
First edition,in 8vo,complete in two volumes,contemporary leather over boards, text clean with few sporadic spotting in some pages, the two frontis and one folding map, overall in very good condition.
Cumming was a physician himself, traveling to find a climate that would alleviate his own illness....