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PORCACCHI, Tomaso. L'isole più famose del mondo descritte da Tomaso Porcacchi da Castiglione arretino e intagliate da Girolamo Porro padouano con noua aggionta..., Padua, Appresso Paolo et Francesco Galignani Fratelli, MDCXX [=1620].

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Tommaso Porcacchi (1530-1585) was a prolific Italian writer, scholar, geographer and translator. Born to a poor family, Porcacchi was however able to…

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LEAR, Edward. Views in the Seven Ionian Islands by Edward Lear. A Facsimile of the Οriginal Edition published in 1863 by the Artist, Oldham/London, Hugh Broadbent [1863/1979].

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Edward Lear (1812-1888) was a prolific landscape painter as well as as a prominent satirical writer. Lear was the last of twenty one children. Due to…

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Piraeus and Ports of the Mediterranean Sea. The hellenic maritime Tradition through Centuries-Engravings, Athens, Eurodimension, 2000.

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A loose album with reproductions of engravings and maps of Piraeus and other ports of the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. The introduction outlines…

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The Dilettante Society. Ionian Antiquities published with Permission of the Society of Dilettanti, by R. Chandler, M.A. F.S.A. N. Revett, Architect; W. Pars, Painter, London, for T. Spilsbury and W. Haskell, MDCCLXIX [=1769].

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The Society of Dilettanti, one of the many clubs of the British aristocracy, was founded in 1734 in order to facilitate closer contact between its…

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WREDE, Maria Elisabeth. [Landscapes in Rhodes, 1918.]

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Maria Elisabeth Wrede (1898-1981) was an artist of Austrian origin, born in Salzburghofen. She lived most of her life and died in Paris. A student of …

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CARNE, John. Syria, The Holy Land, Asia Minor, &c. Illustrated. In a Series of Views, drawn from Nature by W.H. Bartlett, William Purser, &c. First [… Second… Third], London, Fisher, Son & Co., 1836-1838.

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The Englishman John Carne (1789-1844) was the son of a merchant and banker. In 1820 he published anonymously a collection of his poems and in 1821 he…

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[CHAUSSARD, Pierre Jean Baptiste]. Fêtes et Courtisanes de la Grèce. Supplément aux Voyages d’Anacharsis et d’Antenor..., augmentée de notes piquantes sur la Mythologie comparée..., Paris, chez les principaux libraires, MDCCCXXI [=1821].

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Pierre-Jean-Baptiste Chaussard (1766-1823) was a prolific French writer, as well as art critic, poet and revolutionary politician. He was a member of…

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BOISSONNAS, Frédéric. L’Image de la Grèce. Smyrne. Photographies de Edmond Boissonnas Introduction de Ed. Chapuisat, Geneva, Boissonnas, 1919.

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Fr.-Fr. Boissonnas, nicknamed Fred (1858-1946) came from a Swiss family of photographers. An enthusiastic trekker, he started out on his journey from…

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ADELPHUS, i.e. Johann Adolph Meulich. Die Türckisch Chronica von irem Vrsprung anefang und Regiment bisz vff dise Zeit sampt yre kriegen und streyten mit den christen begangen... Strasbourg, Martin Flach, M.CCCC.XIII [=1513].

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Johannes Adelphus (1445-c.1522), also surnamed Müling ή Mulichius, was a German physician and author of religious, historical and geographic works.…

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WALSH, Robert. Voyage en Turquie et à Constantinople, par R. Walsh attaché à l’ambassade de Lord Strangford ; traduit de l’anglais par H. Vilmain et E. Rives, …, Paris, Moutardier, 1828.

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The Irishman Robert Walsh (1772-1852) studied at Trinity College in Dublin and was ordained a priest of the Church of Ireland. In 1815 he published in…

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