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LA MOTRAYE, Aubry de. Voyages du S.r A. de La Motraye, en Europe, Asie & Afrique. Où l’on trouve une grande varieté de Recherches géographiques, historiques & politiques..., The Hague, T. Johnson & J. van Duren, 1727.

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Aubry de la Mottraye (1674?-1743) came from a French Huguenot family that had settled in England. He received an excellent education, and started…

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CASTELLAN, Antoine-Laurent. Moeurs, usages, costumes des Othomans, et abrégé de leur histoire; par A. L. Castellan, auteur de Lettres sur la Morée et sur Constantinople; Six vol. In-18... vols Ι-VI, Paris, Nepveu, 1812.

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Antoine Laurent Castellan (1772-1838) was a French architect, painter and engraver. He studied landscape painting in Valenciennes, and travelled to…

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DODWELL, Edward. Views in Greece, from Drawings by Edward Dodwell Esq. F.S.A &c., London, Rodwell and Martin, 1819.

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The archaeologist and painter Edward Dodwell (1767-1832) was born in Dublin to an ancient and wealthy Irish family, and studied Classics and…

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Raccolta di vedute del regno di Napoli e suoi contorni disegnate al vero, Rome, Presso Po. D'Atri Via del Corso no142, 1850.

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This edition contains two different albums. The first album includes fifty-one engravings with views of Naples and its wider environs in the…

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Li monumenti piú celebri di Roma antica e moderna disegnati da vero ed incisi dai migliori Artisti, Rome, Presso Po. D'Atri Via del Corso no142, 1850.

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This edition contains two different albums. The first one, “Raccolta di Vedute...”, includes fifty-one engravings with views of Naples and larger…

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DU MONCEL, Théodore. Οδοιπορικό του 1843 από την Αθήνα στο Ναύπλιο [Excursion from Athens to Nafplio in 1843], Athens, Olkos-Ariadni, 1984.

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Théodose Achille Louis Vicomte du Moncel (1821-1884) was born in Paris, descendant of a noble family of Normandy. Besides being a proficient painter…

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BAEDEKER, Karl. Greece, Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker,… second revised edition, Leipzig, Karl Baedeker, 1894.

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The first guidebooks for tourists circulated in the nineteenth century, principally in Britain (the Reichard guides in 1784 and the Murray guides from…

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POMARDI, Simone. Viaggio nella Grecia fatto negli anni 1804, 1805 e 1806…, vols I-ΙI, Rome, Vincenzo Poggioli, 1820.

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In his two-volume travel chronicle, Italian painter Simone Pomardi (1760-1830) describes his journey to Greece together with British archaeologist E.…

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EMERSON TENNENT, James (Sir). Letters from the Aegean Sea, by James Emerson, Esq, in two volumes, London, Henry Colburn, 1829.

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Sir James Emerson Tennent (1804-1869) was an Irish politician. He studied in his native Belfast and in Trinity College, Dublin, where he became a…

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[O’HARA (SMITH) - ]. Smith’s Wanderings. A Cruise in the Mediterranean published 20 August 1859, London, Τh. Mc Lean [1859].

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The only information we have on the author of this singular album is what he himself gives in the foreword. It would seem that a party of four men,…

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View the items in [O’HARA (SMITH) - ]. Smith’s Wanderings. A Cruise in the Mediterranean published 20 August 1859, London, Τh. Mc Lean [1859].