Voyage à Constantinople par l'Italie, la Sicile et la Grèce, retour par la Mer Noire, la Roumélie, la Bulgarie, la Bessarabie russe, les provinces danubiennes, la Hongrie, l'Autriche et la Prusse, en mai, juin, juillet et août 1853

First edition of this uncommon work (cf. Atabey 138. Blackmer 178.)

Return journey via the Black Sea, Rumelia, Bulgaria, Russian Bessarabia, the Danubian Principalities, Hungary, Austria and Prussia, in May, June, July and August 1853. Paris, Treuttel et Würtz, Dumoulin, Derache, Victor Didron, 1855, 2 vols. 12mo,

Contemporary half cherry calf bindings, flat spines decorated with gilt fillets, dotted lines, and garlands, gilt rolls at foot, black marks and discoloration to spines and boards, red paper-covered boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, sprinkled edges.

Occasional light spotting, a fresh and well-preserved copy.

This 1853 journey was the first Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes (1788–1868) undertook after retiring from the customs administration in January of that year. Freed from professional obligations, he was now able to devote himself to his research on human origins. Though a pioneer in prehistoric studies, he was also a tireless traveller, taking care to produce a detailed account of each of his expeditions.