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RACZYNSKI, Eduard, Count.
Dziennik podrózy do Turcyi odbytey w roku MDCCCXIV.
Breslau, Grassa Bartha. 1821. First edition. Large folio (50.5 x 37.8cm.), vii, 204, viii, pp., 81 engraved plates on 63 sheets (see note), including 2 folding, mostly after L. Fuhrman, 8 engraved illustrations in text, one leaf with text preceding title, paper browned with some spotting, uncut in original blue boards with original printed spine label, some light wear to extremities.
Raczynski travelled in Turkey and Asia Minor from July-November, 1814; he was accompanied by the artist Ludwig Christian Fuhrmann who produced most of the drawings used for the engravings, though some are after Raczynski himself. They travelled to Constantinople via Odessa and then on to the Troad and Asia Minor, with a visit to Mitylene. Raczynski gives a detailed account of the plain of Troy and fairly long descriptions of Mitylene and Assos in Asia Minor ... Brunet refers to the Polish edition as the most magnificent work hitherto printed in Poland. A beautiful book (Blackmer). The finely engraved plates include depictions of market scenes, coastal views, mosques and regional costumes. A folio German edition was published in 1824 and an octavo German edition in 1825. This copy is more complete than the Blackmer copy. The plates here are numbered 1-82 but numbers 20 and 45 are not present (as usual) and there is a number 28bis (as usual). In the Blackmer copy no.8, 20 and 45 were missing. cf. Blackmer 1375 (German edition); Brunet IV, 1084. No edition in Atabey.
Price: £ 17500
US Dollar Price: $ 34700
Stock Number: 62605