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BERGGREN, Guillaume Gustave. [A Photographic Panorama of Istanbul], [c.1870].
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Guillaume Gustave Berggren (1835-1920) was a Swedish photographer. Apprenticed to a carpenter in 1850, he left Sweden in 1855, studied photography in…
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CRAVEN, Elizabeth, Lady. A Journey through the Crimea to Constantinople…, London, G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1789.
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Elizabeth Craven (1750-1828) was a British author and traveller. After thirteen years of marriage to Baron William Craven, six children and a…
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BARTH, H[ermann]. Constantinople par H. Barth. Les Villes d’Art Célèbres. Paris, Librairie Renouard-H. Laurens, 1913.
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The first edition of this volume circulated around 1886, that is, well before the events of 1913. It is one of the 56 publications in the series "Les…
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ALCOCK, Thomas. Travels in Russia, Persia, Turkey and Greece, in 1828-9, London, E. Clarke and son, 1831.
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The Englishman Thomas Alcock (1801-1866) served as a Member of Parliament at various times in the period 1826 to 1865. As a progressive politician and…
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BAKER, - (Lieutenant-Colonel). Memoir of the Northern Frontier of Greece by…, Communicated to the Geographical Society, by… Printed for for private circulation, 1837.
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This is an independent publication of an article that first appeared in the seventh volume of the "Journal of the Royal Geographical Society" and…
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BEAUFORT, Francis. Karamania, or a brief Description of the South Coast of Asia Minor and of the Remains of Antiquity …, in the Years 1811 & 1812…, London, R. Hunter, 1817.
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Sir Francis Beaufort was an Irish hydrographer and Rear Admiral of the British Royal Navy. He was descended from French Protestant Huguenots who had…
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COOTWIJCK, Johannes van. Itinerarium Hierosolymitanum et Syriacum …, Antwerp, Ηieronymus Verdussen, 1619.
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Johannes van Cootwijck or Johannes Cotovicus (?-1628) from Flanders qualified as Doctor of Law at the University of Utrecht. In April 1598 he departed…
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ΒELON, Pierre. Les observations de plusieurs singularitez & choses mémmorables, trouvées en Grèce, Asie, Judée, Égypte, Arabie, aux autres pays étrangers, Paris, Guillaume Cavellat & Gilles Corrozet, 1554.
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The French naturalist and physician Pierre Belon (1517-1565) was born in Soultière and is best known for his texts, works of a self-taught…
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BANSE Ewald. Die Türkei. Eine Moderne Geographie, Berlin/Βraunschweig/Hamburg 1919.
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The German geographer Ewald Banse (1883-1953) was a fervent supporter of the expansion of the German National State (the Reich), even by military…
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BEAUREGARD, J. de. Aux rives du Bosphore. Dessins à la plume, de O'Netty et illustrations, Lyon, Vitte, 1896.
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This is a highly interesting short travel account with abundant illustrations, published in the late 19th century. It describes a journey from Zaghreb…
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