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Lot 00159 |

MORITZ BUSCH: DIE TURKEI, rEISEHANDBUCH FUR RUMELIEN, DIE ANATOLIEN, SYRIEN, PALASTINA, RHODUS UND CYPERN. TRIEST 1870 First edition, in 8vo, contemporary burgundy cloth nicely decorated in oriental style, text clean and bright with very light scattered spotting in few places, complete 331p., with 15 full page illustrations including two maps and several more illustrations in the text, overall in very good plus condition. One of the very early travel guides for the Levant, published in Trieste, the port of steamers to the Levant. It includes several original accounts for many parts of the Ottoman Levant, including CYPRUS, still then Ottoman. An important part is consecrated to Constantinople, but also Smyrna and Jerusalem. The last chapter of 20 pages has title “touren in Macedonien” and must be one of the earliest travel guide for Macedonia. A huge amount of useful information for the very first generation of tourists.




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