John GRIFFITHS
Nouveau voyage dans la Turquie d'Europe et d'Asie et en Arabie. Traduit par M. B. Barère de Vieuzac[New Voyage through European and Asiatic Turkey and Arabia. Translated by M. B. Barère de Vieuzac]
Blankenstein|Paris 1812|13 x 20.6 cm|2 volumes reliés en 1
First French edition of the translation (Cf. Gay 3573. Chadenat 5378 for the original English edition of 1805. See also Brunet, Table, 19960 and Graesse, III, 155).
Bound in half tan calf, smooth spine decorated with quadruple gilt and blind fillets, gilt tailpiece, marbled paper boards, speckled edges, binding slightly later.
Minor rubbing to the binding.
A member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Griffiths visited Constantinople, Smyrna, and Mytilene, then the island of Chios and the ruins of Croesus's palace at Sardis, the ancient capital of Lydia. He then traveled to Konya, Aleppo, and Basra; from there, he descended the Persian Gulf, passed through Muscat, and...
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