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PREZIOSI, Amedeo. Collection of 113 original watercolor drawings of Turkish costume and street-scenes, many are signed by the artist, and a few dated [1852-1857], vols I-II.
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The painter Amedeo Preziosi (1816-1882) was born into a noble family of Malta. His mother was of French origin and his father was an eminent…
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FYLER, Arthur Evelyn, Colonel. The Development of Cyprus, and Rambles in the Island. With colourded Illustrations, Maps and Plan, London, Percy Lund, Humphries & Co., [1900].
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Colonel Arthur Evelyn Fyler (d. 1904) was in the 50th Queen’s Own West Kent Regiment, which he joined in 1853. He saw action in the Crimean War…
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FYLER, Arthur Evelyn, Colonel
GELL, William, Sir. Narrative of a Journey in the Morea, London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1823.
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Sir William Gell (1777–1836) was a British traveller, archaeologist and topographer. Gell was born in Hopton, Derbyshire and graduated from…
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GELL, William, Sir
FORBIN, Louis Nicolas Philippe Auguste, Comte de. Voyage dans le Levant, Paris, De l'Imprimerie royale, 1819.
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Baron Louis Nicolas Philippe Auguste de Forbin, later count de Forbin (la Roque-d'Anthéron, 1777 – Παρίσι, 1841) was a French painter, author…
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FORBIN, Louis Nicolas Philippe Auguste, Comte de
GIFFARD, Edward. A short Visit to the Ionian Islands, Athens and the Morea, London, John Murray, MDCCCXXXVII [=1837].
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Edward Giffard (1812-1867) was a British admiral and a graduate of Pembroke College, Oxford. Descended from one of the most ancient families of…
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GIFFARD, Edward
GILLIODTS, Juan. Impressions d'Orient, Voyage en Turquie, en Bulgarie et en Serbie, Brussels, [1897].
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Juan Gilliodts was a Belgian traveller and diplomat born in Bruges. His family was Flemish of Spanish origin. Like several leading Flemings of the…
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GILLIODTS, Juan
Die vortreffliche Halb-Insul Morea, Das ist: Eine kurtzgefasste und kürtzliche Beschreibung der vornehmsten Oerter, Städt und Fästungen, Flüssen und Gebürgen..., Nuremberg, 1687.
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Vincenzo Maria Coronelli (1650-1718) was an Italian Franciscan friar, cartographer, cosmographer and encyclopaedist. He was born and died in Venice.…
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HAMILTON, Cospatrick Baillie. A Series of Views in the Mediterranean, Grecian Archipelago, Bosphorus and the Black Sea, from Sketches made during a Tour in 1855 & 1866, London, Day & Son, 1857.
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The publication consists of a series of views in the Mediterranean, the Greek Archipelago, the Ionian Sea, the Bosporus, and the Black Sea engraved by…
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HAMILTON, Cospatrick Baillie
HANSON, Charles Henry. The Land of Greece, Described and Illustrated, London, T. Nelson & Sons, 1886.
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In this richly illustrated account, Charles Henry Hanson covers the history of Greece and its antiquities. As noted in the preface this book “is an…
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HANSON, Charles Henry
FORTIS, Alberto. Viaggio in Dalmazia, vols Ι-II, Venice, Alvise Milocco, MDCCLXXIV [=1774].
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The Italian clergyman Alberto Fortis (1741-1803) studied philosophy and natural sciences with a specialty in mineralogy, and was professor at the…
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FORTIS, Alberto
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