Author: Lamartine, Alphonse de
Title: Souvenirs, impressions, pensées et paysages, pendant un voyage en Orient (1832-1833) ou notes d'un voyageur. 4 Volumes.
Description: Paris: Librairie de Charles Gosselin, 1835. 4 Volumes. Orig. half leather bindings. vii,217; 329; 310; 299 pp. 16x10 cm. With engraved portrait & 2 frontispiece engraved illustrations, two lithographed folding maps & 1 folding table. Occas. light foxing. Some wear on edges and corners. Owner's entry cut out of french title page. Small tear in table. Very good set of this first edition. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. - Lamartine travelled with his wife and daughter on a luxury yacht in the Orient, in the style of an Ottoman prince. He left his family at Beirut and visited Lady Stanhope before reaching Jerusalem. The death of his daughter in Beirut and political affairs in France led him to return home overland through Constantinople and the Danube valley. Tobler p. 153.

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