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FONTANIER, Victor. Voyages en Orient, entrepris par Ordre du Gouvernement Français, de l'année 1821 à l'année 1829, ornés de Figures et d'une Carte, Paris, P. Mongie Aîné, 1829.

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Victor Fontanier (Saint-Flour, Auvergne, c. 1796 – Civitavecchia, 1857) started his career as a pharmacist. He entered the École Normale…

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FONTANIER, Victor

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FITZMAURICE, William Edward. Cruise to Egypt, Palestine, and Greece, during five months' Leave of Absence, London, John Hill, 1834.

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Hon. William Edward FitzMaurice (21 March 1805 – 18 June 1889) was educated at Oriel College, Oxford. He gained the rank of Major in the service of…

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[HAYGARTH, William. Collection of 120 original sketches of Greek landscape made in 1810-1811.]

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William Haygarth (1782- 1825/30) was an English poet, writer and artist. He graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1805 and in 1810 obtained a…

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GROOTE, E. von, Dr. Die Pilgerfahrt des Ritters Arnold von Harff von Cöln durch Italien, Syrien, Aegypten, Arabien, Aethiopien, Nubien, Palästina, die Türkei, Frankreich und Spanien..., Cologne, J. M. Heberle, 1860.

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The German knight Arnold von Harff (1471 – 1505) was born in Harff an der Erft, near modern Bedburg, west of Cologne. He went on a lengthy…

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GROOTE, E. von, Dr

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HAMMER, Joseph von. Topographische Ansichten gesammelt auf einer Reise in die Levante,Vienna, Carl Schaumburg und Comp., 1811.

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Joseph Freiherr von Hammer-Purgstall (1774 - 1856) was an Austrian orientalist. He was born in Graz, Styria, on 9 June 1774. At the age of thirteen he…

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HAY, Robert, Esq. Illustrations of Cairo, London, Tilt and Bogue, 1840.

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Robert Hay (1799-1863) was a Scottish explorer, antiquarian, and early Egyptologist. Born at Duns Castle in Berwickshire into a well-established…

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HAY, Robert, Esq.

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FÜRER, Christoph, von Haimendorff. Itinerarium Aegypti, Arabiae, Palestinae, Syriae aliarumque regionum orientalium..., Nuremberg, Abraham Wagenmann, MDCXX [=1620].

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Christoph Fürer von Haimendorff (1541-1610) was a Nuremberg nobleman and councillor (Ratsherr). He was appointed senator in Nuremberg in 1570. Fürer…

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FÜRER, Christoph, von Haimendorff

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