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PERILLA, Francesco. Chio, l’Ile heureuse Ses Légendes, son Histoire, ses Tragédies, ses Beautés naturelles, ses Moeurs, ses Richesses. Aquarelles, Dessins, Photographies de l’auteur, Athens [Paris, A. Lahure], 1928.

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Little is known about the life of Francesco Perilla except that he was Italian, born in 1874, and that he spent several years in Athens. Around 1930…

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View the items in PERILLA, Francesco. Chio, l’Ile heureuse Ses Légendes, son Histoire, ses Tragédies, ses Beautés naturelles, ses Moeurs, ses Richesses. Aquarelles, Dessins, Photographies de l’auteur, Athens [Paris, A. Lahure], 1928.

LIGHT, Sir Henry. Travels in Egypt, Nubia, Holy Land, Mount Libanon, and Cyprus, in the Year 1814, London, for Rodwell and Martin, 1818.

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The British officer Sir Henry Light was serving in the Malta Garrison in 1814, when he obtained a permit to travel to the regions described in his…

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HORNER, Johann Jakob. Bilder des griechischen Alterthums oder Darstellung der berühmtesten Gegenden und der wichtigsten Kunstwerke des alten Griechenlandes, Zurich, Orell, Füssli and Co., MDCCCXXIII [=1823].

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Johann Jakob Horner (1772-1831) possessed a deep knowledge of art history of art and was also an accomplished literary critic. His articles on the…

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View the items in HORNER, Johann Jakob. Bilder des griechischen Alterthums oder Darstellung der berühmtesten Gegenden und der wichtigsten Kunstwerke des alten Griechenlandes, Zurich, Orell, Füssli and Co., MDCCCXXIII [=1823].

GOUPIL-FESQUET, Frédéric Auguste Antoine. Voyage d’Horace Vernet en Orient rédigé par M. Goupil Fesquet, Paris, Challamel [1843].

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Frédéric Auguste Antoine Goupil-Fesquet (1806-1893) travelled to the East in the company of his uncle, French artist Émile Jean-Horace Vernet…

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CANAYE, Philippe, Seigneur de Fresne. Le Voyage du Levant de Philippe du Fresne-Canaye (1573) publié et annoté par M.H. Hauser, Paris, Ernest Leroux, MDCCCXCVII [=1897].

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Philippe du Fresne-Canaye (1551-1610) was born in Paris and studied Law in Heidelberg. At the age of fifteen he travelled to Germany and Italy. Seven…

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View the items in CANAYE, Philippe, Seigneur de Fresne. Le Voyage du Levant de Philippe du Fresne-Canaye (1573) publié et annoté par M.H. Hauser, Paris, Ernest Leroux, MDCCCXCVII [=1897].

VOGÜÉ, Marie Eugène Melchior de, Vicomte. Syrie, Palestine, Mont Athos. Voyage aux pays du passé. Troisième édition, Paris, Plon Nourrit, 1887.

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The Frenchman Eugène-Melchior de Vogüé (1848-1910) initially followed a career as a diplomat, serving first as an attaché in the French Embassy in…

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View the items in VOGÜÉ, Marie Eugène Melchior de, Vicomte. Syrie, Palestine, Mont Athos. Voyage aux pays du passé. Troisième édition, Paris, Plon Nourrit, 1887.

NAPIER, Charles James. Memoir on the Roads of Cefalonia…, Accompanied by Statistical Tables, State of the Thermometer, &c. &c. &c. London, Printed for James Ridway,1825.

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Charles James Napier (1782-1853) was a British Army officer and politician. He visited Corfu in 1819 as an emissary of the British authorities. In…

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View the items in NAPIER, Charles James. Memoir on the Roads of Cefalonia…, Accompanied by Statistical Tables, State of the Thermometer, &c. &c. &c. London, Printed for James Ridway,1825.

[DESHAYES, Louis, Baron de Courmenin.] Voiage de Levant fait par le commandement du Roy en l’année 1621 par le Sr. D.C., Paris, Chez Adrian Taupinart, 1624.

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Louis Deshayes was born at the end of the sixteenth century. He undertook various diplomatic missions to the East, Russia and Denmark, on behalf of…

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PERRY, Charles. A View of the Levant: particularly of Constantinople, Syria, Egypt and Greece…, Antiquities, Government, Politics, Maxims, Manners and Customs… are … described … London, T. Woodward & C. Davis, et.c., MDCCXLIII [=1743].

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Charles Perry (1698-1780) was a British physician and the author of several treatises on medical matters. From 1739 to 1742 he travelled to France,…

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View the items in PERRY, Charles. A View of the Levant: particularly of Constantinople, Syria, Egypt and Greece…, Antiquities, Government, Politics, Maxims, Manners and Customs… are … described … London, T. Woodward & C. Davis, et.c., MDCCXLIII [=1743].

HOLLAND, Sir Henry. Travels in the Ionian Isles, Albania, Thessaly, Macedonia, &c. during the Years 1812 and 1813, London, for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1815.

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As soon as he finished his medical studies in 1812, the Englishman Henry Holland (1788-1873) started on a journey lasting several months, the account…

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View the items in HOLLAND, Sir Henry. Travels in the Ionian Isles, Albania, Thessaly, Macedonia, &c. during the Years 1812 and 1813, London, for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1815.