Joanne Adolphe et Isambert Emile: Itineraire descriptif, historique et arcaeologique de l’Orient, Paris, Hachette, 1861. First edition of the first comprehensive travel guide for the Levant. 8vo, pp.1104 with several maps and plans. With the introduction of line steamers in the 1850s the Europeans started to travel in greater numbers, in Greece and the Ottoman Levant. After many years of researches, the two authors, that spent several years in Greece and the Levant, were able to publish this all new travel book. A detailed presentation of all the important sites, itineraries, curiosities, peoples, travel habits etc, of a vast area, covering Greece, the still European Turkey (including Thessaly, Macedonia, Epirus, Thrace and the islands) and the Asiatic Turkey (including Syria, Palestine and Egypt). In more than 1.000 pages, the amount of details for every known corner of Greece and the Levant is really impressive, including an analytical presentation of Greece in the 1850s. Contemporary brown blind stamped original cloth, in very good condition. A significant work, the first comprehensive detailed travel guide of the Levant.