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LUCAS, Paul. Voyage du sieur Paul Lucas fait en MDCCXIV, &c. par ordre de Louis XIV, dans la Turquie, l'Asie, Sourie, Palestine, Haute et Basse Egypte, &c..., Amsterdam, Steenhouwer & Uytwerp, 1720.
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Paul Lucas (1664-1737) was a French merchant, naturalist, physician, antiquities hunter and emissary of Louis XIV in search of antiquities. He was…
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SCHWEIGGER, Salomon. Ein newe Reiss Beschreibung auss Teutschland nach Constantinopel und Jerusalem, Nuremberg / Graz, Johann Lantzenberger / Akademische Druck 1608 / 1964.
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Salomon Schweigger (1551-1622) was a German Lutheran theologist and diplomat, son of a noble notary. He studied Classics at the University of…
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STUART, James / REVETT, Nicholas. The Antiquities of Athens measured and delineated by James Stuart F.R.S. and F.S.A. and Nicholas Revett Painters and Architects, vols I-II-III-IV, London, John Haberkorn, 1762-1787-1794-1816-1830.
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The British architect and painter James Stuart (1713-1788), son of a Scottish sailor, started painting from a very early age. While still an…
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SCHEDEL, Hartmann. Liber Cronicarum, Nürnberg, Anton Koberg/Schreyer & Sebastian Kammermeister, 1493.
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The German humanist and physician Hartmann Schedel (1440-1514) was born and died in Nuremberg. He studied Medicine in Padua and other subjects in…
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CORONELLI, Vincenzo. Repubblica di Venezia p. IV. Citta, Fortezze, ed altri Luoghi principali dell' Albania, Epiro e Livadia, e particolarmente i posseduti da Veneti descritti e delineati dal p. Coronelli, Venice, 1688.
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Vincenzo Maria Coronelli (1650-1718) was an Italian Franciscan friar, chartographer, cosmographer and encyclopedist. He was born and died in Venice.…
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BREYDENBACH, Bernhard von. Reise ins Heilige Land, E. Reuwich, Mainz 1486.
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The nobleman Bernard von Breydenbach (1454-1497) was probably born in Strasbourg. He qualified as Doctor of Laws and was elected to high ecclesiastic…
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WILLIAMS, Hugh William. Select Views in Greece with classical Illustrations, vols I-II, London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green / Edinburgh, Adam Black, MDCCC.XXIX [=1829].
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Hugh William Williams (1773-1829) was a British painter, descended from an ancient wealthy Welsh family. Having lost both his parents as a child, from…
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LECHEVALIER, Jean-Baptiste. Voyage de la Propontide et du Pont-Euxin; avec la carte générale de ces deux mers, la description topographique de leurs rivages… [etc.], Paris, Dentu, AN VIII [1800]
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The French archaeologist, astronomer and traveller Jean-Baptiste Lechevalier (1752-1836) taught in several Parisian colleges between 1772 and 1778,…
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LECHEVALIER, Jean Baptiste. Voyage de la Troade, ou Tableu de la plaine de Troie dans son état actuel..., Seconde édition, Paris, Laran, An VII [=1799].
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The French archaeologist, astronomer and traveller Jean-Baptiste Lechevalier (1752-1836) taught in several Parisian colleges between 1772 and 1778,…
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PARDOE, Julia. The Beauties of the Bosphorus by Miss Pardoe, from drawings by William H. Bartlett. London, Virtue, 1839.
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The British poetess, writer and traveller Miss Julia Pardoe (1806-1862) visited Constantinople with her father, Major Thomas Pardoe and resided there…
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