CORANCEZ, Louis Alexandre Olivier de (1770-1832)]. Itinéraire d'une partie peu connue de l'Asie Mineure, contenant: la description des régions septentrionales de la Syrie, celles des côtes méridionales de l'Asie Mineure . Paris: J.-M. Eberhard et Antoine-Augustin Renouard, 1816. 8° (218 x 135mm), half-title, folding engraved map after A. Aubert (First seven leaves with closed tears affecting blank area of half-title and title imprint, and causing slight loss to three subsequent leaves, first and final quires loose, without final blank.) Original blue wrappers, paper spine label, uncut (repair to upper cover, spine lightly rubbed), modern cloth box.
CORANCEZ, Louis Alexandre Olivier de (1770-1832)]. Itinéraire d'une partie peu connue de l'Asie Mineure, contenant: la description des régions septentrionales de la Syrie, celles des côtes méridionales de l'Asie Mineure . Paris: J.-M. Eberhard et Antoine-Augustin Renouard, 1816. 8° (218 x 135mm), half-title, folding engraved map after A. Aubert (First seven leaves with closed tears affecting blank area of half-title and title imprint, and causing slight loss to three subsequent leaves, first and final quires loose, without final blank.) Original blue wrappers, paper spine label, uncut (repair to upper cover, spine lightly rubbed), modern cloth box. UNCUT COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS. This account of the author's travels in Asia Minor, Cyprus and Syria between 1809 and 1812 contains 'much information on the peoples of Lebanon and Syria and an account of the inland routes to Constantinople'. Corancez had been in Egypt as a member of Napoleon's scientific expedition, and was awarded the Legion of Honour while consul in Algiers, though poor health stopped him taking up the post of consul in Baghdad in 1810. Atabey 281 (refers to this second copy); Blackmer 403.
CORANCEZ, Louis Alexandre Olivier de (1770-1832)]. Itinéraire d'une partie peu connue de l'Asie Mineure, contenant: la description des régions septentrionales de la Syrie, celles des côtes méridionales de l'Asie Mineure . Paris: J.-M. Eberhard et Antoine-Augustin Renouard, 1816. 8° (218 x 135mm), half-title, folding engraved map after A. Aubert (First seven leaves with closed tears affecting blank area of half-title and title imprint, and causing slight loss to three subsequent leaves, first and final quires loose, without final blank.) Original blue wrappers, paper spine label, uncut (repair to upper cover, spine lightly rubbed), modern cloth box.
CORANCEZ, Louis Alexandre Olivier de (1770-1832)]. Itinéraire d'une partie peu connue de l'Asie Mineure, contenant: la description des régions septentrionales de la Syrie, celles des côtes méridionales de l'Asie Mineure . Paris: J.-M. Eberhard et Antoine-Augustin Renouard, 1816. 8° (218 x 135mm), half-title, folding engraved map after A. Aubert (First seven leaves with closed tears affecting blank area of half-title and title imprint, and causing slight loss to three subsequent leaves, first and final quires loose, without final blank.) Original blue wrappers, paper spine label, uncut (repair to upper cover, spine lightly rubbed), modern cloth box. UNCUT COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS. This account of the author's travels in Asia Minor, Cyprus and Syria between 1809 and 1812 contains 'much information on the peoples of Lebanon and Syria and an account of the inland routes to Constantinople'. Corancez had been in Egypt as a member of Napoleon's scientific expedition, and was awarded the Legion of Honour while consul in Algiers, though poor health stopped him taking up the post of consul in Baghdad in 1810. Atabey 281 (refers to this second copy); Blackmer 403.
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