FREDERIC AUGUSTE ANTOINE GOUPIL-FESQUET - VOYAGE D’HORACE VERNET EN ORIENT
First edition. Paris, Challamel Editeur, 1843. 228 pages, 26x16.5 cm. 16 full-page colored engravings. Bound in leather with a ribbed spine, gilt lettering and decorations, with leather cornered hardcover. Atabey 511, Blackmer 718, Weber 309, Carteret 594.
THE TRAVEL DIARY OF GOUPIL-FESQUET, KNOWN FOR HIS TRAVELS TO THE EAST, ALONG WITH HIS ARTIST UNCLE EMILE JEAN-HORACE VERNET, DESCRIBING THEIR JOURNEY IN 1839, STARTING FROM THE AEGEAN ISLANDS AND EXTENDING THROUGH ISTANBUL, IZMIR, ANATOLIA, THE HOLY LAND, AND EGYPT IN THE OTTOMAN TERRITORIES...
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