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MAYER, Luigi. Views in the Ottoman Empire, chiefly in Caramania, a part of Asia Minor hitherto unexplored; [etc.] London, R. Bowyer, 1803.
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Luigi Mayer (1755-1803) was a painter of German and Italian descent. He was born in Rome, was a pupil of well-known engraver J.B. Piranesi and worked…
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CASTELLAN, Antoine-Laurent. Lettres sur la Grèce, l'Hellespont et Constantinople, faisant suite aux lettres sur la Morée; Par A.L. Castellan. Avec vingt dessins de l'auteur, gravés par lui-même, et deux plans, Paris, chez H. Agasse, 1811
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Antoine Laurent Castellan (1772-1838) was a French architect, painter and engraver. He studied landscape painting in Valenciennes, and travelled to…
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MARTIN DU TYRAC, Marie-Louis-Jean-André Charles de (vicomte de Marcellus). Souvenirs de l’Orient …, vols Ι-ΙΙ, Brussels, Société Belge de Librairie, 1840.
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Marie-Louis-Jean-André Charles de Martin du Tyrac, vicomte de Marcellus, (1795-1841) came from Marseilles. As soon as he graduated from college in…
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CASTELLAN, Antoine Laurent. Lettres sur la Morée et les iles de Cérigo, Hydra, et Zante…., avec vingt-trois Dessins de l’Auteur, gravés par lui-même, et trois Plans…, Paris, Η. Agasse, 1808.
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Antoine Laurent Castellan (1772-1838) was a French architect, painter and engraver. He studied landscape painting in Valenciennes, and travelled to…
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REY, Etienne. Voyage Pittoresque en Grèce et dans le Levant fait en 1843-1844, vols Ι-ΙΙ, Lyon, Louis Perrin, MDCCCLXVII [=1867].
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Etienne Rey (1789-1867) was a French painter. He was one of the first professors at the École des Beaux-Arts of Lyon, as well as director of the…
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GRASSET DE SAINT-SAUVEUR, André. Voyage historique, littéraire et pittoresque dans les isles et possessions ci-devant vénitiennes du Levant..., Paris, chez Tavernier, AN VIII [=1800] [Atlas].
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André Grasset de Saint-Sauveur lived in Corfu for several years (1781-1798), while the islands was under French rule, and visited the rest of the…
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BRÖNDSTED, Peter Oluf. Reisen und Untersuchungen in Griechenland, nebst Darstellung und Erklärung vieler neuentdeckten Denkmäler griechischen Styls…, vols I-II, Paris, Firmin Didot, 1826-1830.
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The Danish archaeologist Peter Oluf Bröndsted (1780-1841), son of a priest, studied Theology and Classics in Copenhagen. Fluent in eight languages,…
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STEPHANOPOLI, Dimo and Nicolo. Voyage de Dimo et Nicolo Stephanopoli en Grèce, pendant les années 1797 et 1798... [etc.], Tome premier. [... Tome second.] London, 1800. [...Paris, Guilleminet, 1800.]
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Dimo Stephanopoli (1749-1821) was a Corsican cavalry officer, botanist and naturalist, descended from Mani. He was born in Corsica and died, nearly…
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RANDOLPH, Bernard. The present State of the Morea, called anciently Peloponnesus…, with a Description of the City of Athens, Islands of Zant, Strafades, and Serigo…, London, William Notts, Thomas Basset & Thomas Bennet, MDCLXXXIX [=1689].
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Bernard Randolph was an English merchant. He stayed in the East for approximately nine years and toured the Peloponnese, the Aegean islands, Crete and…
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RANDOLPH, Bernard. The present state of the Islands in the Archipelago (Or Arches), Sea of Constantinople, and Gulf of Smyrna; With the Islands of Candia, and Rhodes... [etc.] Oxford, 1687.
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Bernard Randolph was an English merchant. He stayed in the East for approximately nine years and toured the Peloponnese, the Aegean islands, Crete and…
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