Vicompte RENE VIGIER: Un Parisien en Constantinople. Paris 1886 Second edition. In 8vo (18x12 cm). Contemporary leather over boards, rubbed. Complete: 286 p. Text with waterstain throughout and occasional marks of damp; overall in poor condition but perfectly readable. Extremely rare account of Constantinople. Vigier (1859–1931), a young French aristocrat, undertook a journey to the Levant in the early 1880s. This lengthy narrative covers exclusively his extended stay in Constantinople, making it a fine monograph on the city during that period. The work provides an astonishing wealth of detail on daily life, ceremonies, festivities, economic activities, the multinational population, and the bustling port. Most probably issued as a private edition in a small print run, financed by Vigier himself, the book has become extremely rare and is absent from all major collections.