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MONTANI, P. Album oriental, Types et costumes, Istanbul, E. Olivier.

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The present album of the Gennadius Library is comprised of plates by painter P. Montani. The plates show characteristic human types of the Ottoman…

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MONTANI, P

Album zur Erinnerung an Athen, Trieste, Lloyd [1860].

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The illustrated albums which exalted the natural and architectural beauties of Italy, the Eastern Mediterranean, Istanbul and other locations became…

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Album zur Erinnerung an Athen

Recueil des différents costumes des principaux officiers et magistrats de la Porte, et des peuples sujets de l'Empire Othoman..., Paris, chez Onfroy [ca. 1780].

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This rare Album was created and published anonymously. It is comprised of plates with costumes, human types of the Ottoman Empire and officials of the…

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Recueil des différents costumes des principaux officiers

BERESFORD, George de la Poer, Captain. Twelve Sketches in double tinted Lithography of Scenes in Southern Albania, London, Day and Son, [1855].

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The Irish army official George de la Poer Beresford (1826-1865) was descended from an eminent Irish statesman. Very little is known of his studies,…

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BERESFORD, George de la Poer, Captain

BECK, Henri. Vues d’Athènes et de ses Monuments, Photographies d’après Nature, Berlin - London, A. Asher & Co., 1868.

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Henri Beck was the creator of some of the earliest photographs of Athenian monuments, shortly after the mid-19th century. The excavation and…

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BECK, Henri

[Mr. Burr’s sketches: twelve tinted lithograph plates of fourteen views in Egypt, Jerusalem, Constantinople, Athens…, London, ca. 1840].

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The British painter Anne-Margaretta Burr or Margaretta Higford Burr (1817-1892), daughter of admiral Edward Scobell, travelled to Spain, Italy, Sicily…

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BURR, Anne-Margaretta

COCHRANE, George, Esq. Wanderings in Greece, vols I-II, London, Henry Colburn, 1837.

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George Cochrane arrived in Greece in January 1827 together with his uncle, admiral Thomas Cochrane, who was in command of two British steamships…

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COCHRANE, George, Esq