Author: LAMARTINE (DE PRAT), (Marie Louis) Alphonse de.
Title: Herinneringen, indrukken, gedachten en tafereelen, opgedaan gedurende eene reize naar het Oosten, (1832-1833), of aanteekeningen van een reiziger.
Description: Breda, Amsterdam., F.P. Sterk & L. van Bakkenes, 1835-1836. 4 volumes. Contemporary half calf, with title label to spines. With frontispiece portrait, folding table and 2 folding lithographed maps. XII,294; 370; 344; VI,338 pp. First Dutch edition; first published in French Souvenirs, impressions, pensées et paysages, pendant un voyage en Orient, Paris 1835 . - Lamartine, with his wife and daughter, left Marseilles in October 1832, in his private yacht which was fitted out with a library and an arsenal. He travelled in the style of an Ottoman prince, presenting costly gifts to his hosts and was known in the East as l'Emir Français. Lamartine left his family at Beirut and went on to the Holy Land alone. His daughter Julie died of consumption at Beirut, and Lamartine returned to France overland via Constantinople and the Danube valley. He spent 16 months in the Levent (Blackmer p.199). - (Foxing). Blackmer Collection 942; Atabey Collection 659; The Ömer Koç Collection II, 300; Tobler 153; Rohricht 1776; not in Tiele or Cat. NHSM.
Keywords: Dutch travel Israel Middle East Syria
Title: Herinneringen, indrukken, gedachten en tafereelen, opgedaan gedurende eene reize naar het Oosten, (1832-1833), of aanteekeningen van een reiziger.
Description: Breda, Amsterdam., F.P. Sterk & L. van Bakkenes, 1835-1836. 4 volumes. Contemporary half calf, with title label to spines. With frontispiece portrait, folding table and 2 folding lithographed maps. XII,294; 370; 344; VI,338 pp. First Dutch edition; first published in French Souvenirs, impressions, pensées et paysages, pendant un voyage en Orient, Paris 1835 . - Lamartine, with his wife and daughter, left Marseilles in October 1832, in his private yacht which was fitted out with a library and an arsenal. He travelled in the style of an Ottoman prince, presenting costly gifts to his hosts and was known in the East as l'Emir Français. Lamartine left his family at Beirut and went on to the Holy Land alone. His daughter Julie died of consumption at Beirut, and Lamartine returned to France overland via Constantinople and the Danube valley. He spent 16 months in the Levent (Blackmer p.199). - (Foxing). Blackmer Collection 942; Atabey Collection 659; The Ömer Koç Collection II, 300; Tobler 153; Rohricht 1776; not in Tiele or Cat. NHSM.
Keywords: Dutch travel Israel Middle East Syria
Price: EUR 412.50 = appr. US$ 448.32 Seller: Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books (NVvA/ILAB)
- Book number: 7339
- Book number: 7339