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GODARD - FAULTRIER, Victor. D'Angers au Bosphore pendant la guerre d'Orient: Constantinople, Athènes, Rome..., Angers, Consier et Lachèse, 1857.
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In 1855 Victor Godart-Faultrier decided to travel to the East accompanied by his wife and son. His friend V. Guerin, former member of the French…
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SAINT-NON, Jean Claude Richard, abbé de. Voyage pittoresque ou description des Royaumes de Naples et de Sicile. Quatrième volume, contenant la description de la Sicile. Seconde Partie, Paris, M. DCC. LXXXVI [=1786].
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Jean-Claude Richard, abbé de Saint-Non (1727-1791) was a French clergyman, engraver and painter. He was exiled from Paris for political reasons and…
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PASHLEY, Robert. Travels in Crete, vols I-II, London, John Murray, MDCCCXXXVII [=1837].
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Robert Pashley (1805-1859) was a British economist descended from an ancient noble family of York. He studied Law at Cambridge and became also…
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WORDSWORTH, Christopher. La Grèce pittoresque et historique, Paris, L. Curmer, 1841.
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Christopher Wordsworth (1807-1885) became Bishop of Lincoln in 1868. An excellent classical scholar and the author of numerous theological works, he…
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FALKE, Jacob von. Ελλάς, ο Βίος των Αρχαίων Ελλήνων... [Greece, The life and culture of the ancient Greeks, from the German of Jacob Falke, translated by N. G. Politis], Athens, Kaktos [Karl Wilberg], 2002 [1887].
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Jakob Falke (1825-1897) was a German historian and art critic. He studied Classics and worked first as a teacher. He later became curator of the…
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PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista. La Antichità Romane opera di Giambattista Piranesi architetto veneziano divisa in quattro tomi…, vols I-IV, Rome, Angelo Rotilj, MDCCLVII [=1757].
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The Italian architect and engraver Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) was born in Venice. He started taking drawing lessons at an early age, and…
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FICACCI, Luigi (ed.) PIRANESI: The Etchings, London, Taschen, 2006.
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The Italian architect and engraver Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) was born in Venice. He started taking drawing lessons at an early age, and…
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View the items in FICACCI, Luigi (ed.) PIRANESI: The Etchings, London, Taschen, 2006.
Album zur Erinnerung an Constantinopel, Trieste, Lloyd, [1860?].
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The illustrated albums which exalted the natural and architectural beauties of Italy, the Eastern Mediterranean, Istanbul and other locations became…
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Album zur Erinnerung an Constantinopel
View the items in Album zur Erinnerung an Constantinopel, Trieste, Lloyd, [1860?].
ALBRIZZI, Girolamo. Esatta notitia del Peloponneso, volgarmente penisola della Morea, divisa in otto provincie…, Venice, Girolamo Albrizzi, MDCLXXXVII [=1687].
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Girolamo Albrizzi came from a noble family of Bergamo. He founded the Albrizzi publishing house in the late 17th century. Albrizzi made use of his…
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ALBRIZZI, Girolamo
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