Compte de Marcellus, “Souvenirs de l’Orient”, Paris, 1861. Third edition. in 8vo 19x13cm, contemporary yellow publishers paperboards, in very good condition, a large uncut copy, text clean, overall almost fine condition. Complete: half title, title [12] 600p. Compte de Marcellus (17951861) was secretary in the French embassy in Constantinople from 1815 to 1820. He was the person, on board the French schooner Estafette (see also lot),who achieved to purchase the famous statue of Venus of Milos for the French state and secure its loading on the Estafette. Marcellus travelled extensively in Greece and in the Levant those years and this is his detailed travel account. Many places in Greece had been carefully described just in the eve of the Revolution. A detailed account for the events in Milos in spring 1820 is also included. Not in Atabey or Blackmer.
Compte de Marcellus, “Souvenirs de l’Orient”, Paris, 1861. Third edition. in 8vo 19x13cm, contemporary yellow publishers paperboards, in very good condition, a large uncut copy, text clean, overall almost fine condition. Complete: half title, title [12] 600p. Compte de Marcellus (17951861) was secretary in the French embassy in Constantinople from 1815 to 1820. He was the person, on board the French schooner Estafette (see also lot),who achieved to purchase the famous statue of Venus of Milos for the French state and secure its loading on the Estafette. Marcellus travelled extensively in Greece and in the Levant those years and this is his detailed travel account. Many places in Greece had been carefully described just in the eve of the Revolution. A detailed account for the events in Milos in spring 1820 is also included. Not in Atabey or Blackmer.
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