Wittman, William: Travels in Turkey, Asia-Minor, Syria, and across the desert into Egypt during the years 1799, 1800, and 1801, in company with the Turkish army, and the British military mission. To which are annexed, observations on the plague, and on the diseases prevalent in Turkey, and a meteorological journal. London: Gillet for Phillips 1803. 26,2 x 20,7 cm. Mit 1 gest. Faltkte., 1 gest. teilkol. Plan, 1 gr. gefalt. Faksimile-Taf., 4 Kupfertafeln mit 5 Ansichten und 16 kol. Aquatinta-Kostümtafeln. XVI, 595 SS., 1 nn. S. Späteres HLdr. mit Rs. (Ohne das gefalt. Frontispiz. Rückenbezug spröde. Titelbl. mit starken Wasserschäden, rückseitig hinterklebt; Bibliotheksstempel. Tafeln mit Abklatsch. Stellenweise gebräunt und alters- bzw. feuchtfleckig). Hiler S. 903. Röhricht 338. Cox I, S. 240. Gay 148. Vgl. Lipperh. Lb 40 (dt. Ausgabe). Blackmer Coll. 1832 - „Wittman was a member of the British military mission which joined the Turkish forces at Constantinople in 1799 and travelled overland to Egypt to take part in the compaign against the French ... the costume plates, unsigned, are mostly of soldiers and military functionaires“ (Blackmer).
Wittman, William: Travels in Turkey, Asia-Minor, Syria, and across the desert into Egypt during the years 1799, 1800, and 1801, in company with the Turkish army, and the British military mission. To which are annexed, observations on the plague, and on the diseases prevalent in Turkey, and a meteorological journal. London: Gillet for Phillips 1803. 26,2 x 20,7 cm. Mit 1 gest. Faltkte., 1 gest. teilkol. Plan, 1 gr. gefalt. Faksimile-Taf., 4 Kupfertafeln mit 5 Ansichten und 16 kol. Aquatinta-Kostümtafeln. XVI, 595 SS., 1 nn. S. Späteres HLdr. mit Rs. (Ohne das gefalt. Frontispiz. Rückenbezug spröde. Titelbl. mit starken Wasserschäden, rückseitig hinterklebt; Bibliotheksstempel. Tafeln mit Abklatsch. Stellenweise gebräunt und alters- bzw. feuchtfleckig). Hiler S. 903. Röhricht 338. Cox I, S. 240. Gay 148. Vgl. Lipperh. Lb 40 (dt. Ausgabe). Blackmer Coll. 1832 - „Wittman was a member of the British military mission which joined the Turkish forces at Constantinople in 1799 and travelled overland to Egypt to take part in the compaign against the French ... the costume plates, unsigned, are mostly of soldiers and military functionaires“ (Blackmer).
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