Gardane Ange, “Tagebuch einer Reise durch die Asiatische Turkei nach Persien in den jahren 1807 und 1808”, Weimar, 1809. First and only German edition, following the French of the same year. Complete. 8vo (20x12cm), pp.124. Unbound but firmly tight, very clean inside. In 1807 General Gardane has been sent as Ambassador of Napoleon to Persia. His brother Ange, secretary of the legation, has conducted this journal of the French embassy travel through Asia Minor, an unexplored area at that time. The described itinerary was through almost impassable, for Europeans, tracks in the interior of Anatolia, chosen to avoid coastal areas and English ships. This account is considered very precious for the detailed accurate observations of people and land of Anatolia, based on observations of several scientists that followed the mission. It was the first time that a well organized state mission followed land routes in Anatolia, since the embassy mission of Busbeck. Both editions (French and German) are Very Rare. Atabey 477 (for the French ed.), not in Blackmer