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WRIGHT, George Newenham. The Rhine, Italy, and Greece. In a Series of Drawings from Nature… With historical and legendary Descriptions by the Rev. G.N. Wright, vols I-II, London/Paris, Fisher, Son & Co. [ca. 1842].
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The Irishman George Newenham Wright (c. 1794-1877) was born in Dublin and studied at Trinity College. He lived in London, where he taught Classics.…
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HOBHOUSE, John Cam, Lord Broughton. A Journey through Albania, and other Provinces of Turkey in Europe and Asia, to Constantinople, during the Years 1809 and 1810 … Second Edition, vols Ι-II, London, James Cawthorn, 1813.
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John Cam Hobhouse (1786-1869), later Lord Broughton, travelled to the East accompanying his friend and fellow student at Cambridge, Lord Byron, who…
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WHELER, George. A Journey into Greece… In Company of Dr Spon of Lyons. In six Books. Containing I…, II…, III…, IV…, V…, VI…, London, William Cademan, Robert Kettlewell and Awnsham Churchill, 1682.
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George Wheler (1650-1723) was born in the Netherlands to a royalist English family that had fled Cromwellian England. He fathered eighteen children.…
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PUAUX, René. Grèce. Terre aimée des Dieux, Paris [G. de Maleherbe], MCMXXXII [=1932].
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The French historian and journalist René Puaux (1878-1936) worked for the internationally renowned Parisian newspaper "Le Temps" and was a fervent…
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LABORDE, Léon Emmanuel S.J. de, Marquis. Athènes aux XVe, XVIe et XVIIe siècles, Paris, Jules Renouard, 1854.
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Simon Joseph Léon Emmanuel, Marquis de Laborde (1807-1869) was a French archaeologist and politician. At the age of twenty he accompanied his father…
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ESTOURMEL, Joseph d’, Comte. Album du Journal d’un Voyage en Orient, Paris, Imprimeurs Unis, 1848.
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Joseph Count of Estourmel (1783-1853) travelled the Greek coast from June 1832 to September 1833. Already in his fifties, with this trip he fulfilled…
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DAPPER, Olfert. Naukeurige Beschryving der Eilanden in de Archipel der Middelantsche Zee, …, Cyprus, Rhodes, Kandien, Samos, Scio, Negroponte, Lemnos, Paros, Delos, Patmos, en andere, in groten getale…, Amsterdam, Wolfgangh,…, 1688.
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The Flemish physician Olfert Dapper (1636-1689), a man of letters and an excellent Classical scholar, was born in Amsterdam and studied in Utrecht.…
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NICOLAY, Nicolas de. Le Navigationi et viaggi, fatti nella Turchia … Novamente tradotto di Francese in Italiano da Francesco Flori da Lilla, Aritmetico…, Venice, Francesco Ziletti, 1580.
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Nicolas de Nicolay left his native France at the age of 25 and for sixteen years travelled in Germany, Denmark, Prussia, Sweden, England, Scotland and…
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BARTHÉLEMY, Jean Jacques. Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grèce, vers le milieu du quatrième siècle avant l’ère vulgaire. – Atlas, Paris, Abel Ledoux fils, 1832.
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Jean Jacques Barthélemy (1716-1795), also known as Abbé Barthélemy, was born into a well-to-do family in the South of France. Literatus,…
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BRUYN, Cornelis de. Voyages...
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The Flemish traveller and artist Cornelis de Bruyn (1652-1727) departed from the Hague in 1674 and journeyed through the East until 1693. On his…
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