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REUILLY, Jean Baron de. Voyage en Crimée et sur les bords de la Mer Noire, pendant l'année 1803..., Paris, Bossange, Masson et Besson, 1806.

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Jean Baron de Reuilly (1780-1810) was a French politician. As he notes in the introduction to his work, he travelled to Crimea in 1803, and published…

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BELLIN, [Jacques-Nicolas]. Decription Géographique du Golf de Venise et de la Morée. Avec des remarques pour la Navigation et des Cartes et Plans des Côtes, Villes, Ports et Mouillages, Paris, Didot, M.DCC.LXXI [=1771].

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Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772) was a French cartographer, hydrographer and engineer of the French Navy. He was born in Paris and was a member of…

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DU MONT, [Jean, Baron de Carlscroon]. Nouveau voyage du Levant, par le Sieur D. M. Contenant ce qu'il a vû de plus remarquable en Allemagne, France, Italie, Malthe, & Turquie..., The Hague, Etienne Foulque, MDCXCIV [=1694].

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French publisher Jean Dumont Baron de Carlscroon (1667-1727) was born in Rouen. He served for a time in the German army, and later became professor…

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CALVERT, Frederick (Baron Baltimore). [Eastern Costume, Engraved from the Collection of Lord Baltimore, after designs by Francis Smith, London, 1769.]

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Frederick Calvert (1731-1771), sixth Baron of Baltimore was a British nobleman with properties in Maryland, then a British colony in America. He never…

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BIANCO NOE, Viaggio da Venetia al Santo Sepolcro, et al monte Sina. Col dissegno delle Città, Castelli, Ville, Chiese, Monasterij, Isole, Porti, & Fiumi..., Lucca, Salvatore e Giandomenico Marescandoli, 1600.

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Franciscan friar Noe Bianco made his pilgrimage to the Holy Land around 1527 and died in Peruggia in 1568. He followed the usual pilgrim route without…

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View the items in BIANCO NOE, Viaggio da Venetia al Santo Sepolcro, et al monte Sina. Col dissegno delle Città, Castelli, Ville, Chiese, Monasterij, Isole, Porti, & Fiumi..., Lucca, Salvatore e Giandomenico Marescandoli, 1600.

[DALVIMART, Octavien]. The Costume of Turkey, Illustrated by a Series of Engravings; with Description in English and French, London, Howlett and Brimmer for William Miller, MDCCCIV [=1804].

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Little is known about Octavien Dalvimart, besides the facts that he worked in Britain as painter and engraver, and that he was living in Paris in…

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GRIFFITHS, John. Travels in Europe, Asia Minor, and Arabia, by J. Griffiths, M. D. Member of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh, and of several foreign literary societies, London [Edinburgh], T. Cadell and W. Davis [Peter Hill], 1805.

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The British physician Julius Griffiths started out on his journey to the faraway East, influenced, as he states in his introduction, by his “natural…

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EGMONT, Johan Aegidius van / HEYMAN, John. Travels through Part of Europe, Asia Minor, the Islands of the Archipelago; Syria, Palestine, Egypt, Mount Sinai, &c. .., vols Ι-II, London, L. Davis and C. Reymers, MDCCLIX [=1759].

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Two distinct travel chronicles were merged to create this text. Dutch nobleman and diplomat Jan Aegidius van Egmond van de Nijenburg (1693-1747) was…

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View the items in EGMONT, Johan Aegidius van / HEYMAN, John. Travels through Part of Europe, Asia Minor, the Islands of the Archipelago; Syria, Palestine, Egypt, Mount Sinai, &c. .., vols Ι-II, London, L. Davis and C. Reymers, MDCCLIX [=1759].

[MOLL, Herman]. Geographia classica: The geography of the ancients so far describ'd as it is contain'd in the Greek and Latin classicks, in twenty-nine maps of the Old World..., London, Printed for C. Browne, MDCCXVII [=1717].

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Herman Moll (1654-1732) was a British engraver, cartographer and editor, possibly of German or Flemish descent. Moll settled in London in 1678, and…

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CORONELLI, Vincenzo Maria. Morea, Negroponte & adiacenze, [Venice, ca. 1708].

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Vincenzo Maria Coronelli (1650-1718) was an Italian Franciscan friar, cartographer, cosmographer and encyclopedist. Son of a Venetian tailor, he was…

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