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WORDSWORTH, Christopher. Greece Pictorial, Descriptive, & Historical…, and a History of the Characteristics of Greek Art…, London, John Murray, 1882.
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Christopher Wordsworth (1807-1885) became Bishop of Lincoln in 1868. An excellent classical scholar and the author of numerous theological works, he…
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HAYGARTH, William. Greece, a Poem, in three Parts; with Notes, classical Illustrations, and Sketches of the Scenery, London, W. Bulmer & Co., 1814.
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The British author and painter William Haygarth (1782- 1825/30) was a fellow student of Lord Byron at Trinity College Cambridge. He travelled in Greek…
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GELL, Sir William. The Geography and Antiquities of Ithaca, London, Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1807.
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William Gell was an archaeologist, topographer and chartographer who studied at Cambridge, and one of the most important scholars of Greece. He was…
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WITTMAN, William. Travels in Turkey, Asia-Minor, Syria, and across the Desert into Egypt during the years 1799, 1800, and 1801, in Company with the Turkish Army, and the British Military Mission... London, T. Gillet for Richard Phillips, 1803.
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William Wittman was in the Ottoman Empire from the end of 1798 until 1802. He was a member of the British Military Mission that allied with the…
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STACKELBERG, Otto Magnus von. Costumes & Usages des Peuples de la Grèce Moderne dessinés sur les lieux…, Paris, Senefelder & Formentin pour Marino [ca. 1828].
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Otto Magnus von Stackelberg (1787-1837), the fifteenth child in his family, was raised and educated in Estonia. He studied in Germany and Moscow, and…
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BEAUVAU, Henri de. Relation Iournalière du Voyage du Levant faict & descrit … Reveu augmenté et enrichy par l’Autheur…, Nannecy, Jacob Garnich, 1615.
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Henri de Beauvau was a diplomat and an army officer. In November 1604 he escorted the French Ambassador to the Sublime Porte, De Salignac, on his…
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FROMMEL, Carl. Dreissig Ansichten aus Griechenlands zu den Werken griechischer Autoren, Gegenden und Monumente vorstellend… Trente vues de la Grèce, représentant des contrées et des monuments…, Karlsruhe, Scotzniovsky, [1830].
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Carl Ludwig Frommel (1789-1863) was a German engraver and landscape painter. He studied in Karlsruhe, visited Paris and became famous in Italy in the…
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[MORENO, José.] Viage à Constantinopla, en el Ano de 1784, escrito de orden superior, Madrid [Lazaro Gayguer], 1790.
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This interesting account describes the expedition of the Spanish Navy to Constantinople in 1784. It is based on the manuscript of Don Gabriel de…
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FARRER, Richard Ridley. A Tour in Greece 1880, Edinburgh, William Blackwood, 1882.
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Richard Ridley Farrer travelled in the Greek State in 1880. With nothing extraordinary, this edition is illustrated by twenty-seven wood engravings…
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SUARÈS, André. Temples Grecs Maisons des Dieux. Illustré de quatorze eaux-fortes originales par Pierre Matossy [Paris, André Dantan, 1937].
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Αndré Suarès (1868-1948) was born in Marseilles. A prolific writer, critic and poet, he was acquainted with the most influential French…
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