VIMERCATI Cesar, “Constantinople et L’Egypte”, Paris, Imprimerie D’ Adolphe Blondeau, 1854. 8vo, pp.379,[2]. Frontispiece map of Egypt and a full page plate “massacre des Janisaires”. Original paper boards, soiled and with light edge-wear, light cracks on spine. Interior in very fine condition. Two (2) ex-libris labels. A scarce travel account of a voyage to the Levant starting from Italy and passing through the Ionian Sea, the Peloponnese, and the Greek Archipelago on the way towards Constantinople, providing in the first 33 pages short descriptions of Nafplio, Athens, Piree, Syros, Chios, Smyrna. The first part is dealing with Constantinople, providing interesting descriptions and information along the population formation & ethnicities, focusing also in the administrational & military reformations of Sultan Mahmoud II. The second part includes the descriptions of Alexandria, Cairo and parts of Syria including a chapter about the Maronites, Mutuales & Druze populations of Syria.