Lundstedt Gustaf: “Besrkifning ofter seglingen genom Grekiska Archipelagen, Dardanellerne och Constantinopels canal Marmara sjon, Svarta och Asovska hafven… vid Bosphoren.” Stockholm 1821 First and only edition. In 8vo 20x12cm, publishers hard blue papercovers slightly faded, contemporary manuscript title on spine, spine with some wear, internally clean and bright, complete 81p. and one folded plate, as call for, overall very good. Gustaf Lundstadt was a Swedish captain who traveled in the Greek waters and the Black sea in 1818 and 1819. He kept a detailed calendar during his travel. The start of the Greek revolution in 1821 and the widespread interest for Greece, made him publish his travel account in Stockholm. Lundstadt was an experienced seaman, he had traveled in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans before and he made also many useful nautical remarks for the Greek waters, still largely unchartered. Very few detailed travel accounts written by mariners have survived, fewer have ever been published, almost none for the Levant. Lundstedt arrived in Greece at Kithira and stayed briefly in early 1818, from there he visited Milos, Kythnos, several other of the Cyclades and Pireas. He passed Cavo Doro in Evia and crossed the Aegean to Tenedos where he stayed for many days. A lengthy account on Kallipolis in Thrace and many other places around the sea of Marmara (Iraklia, Silivria, Artaki, Aloni, the Princes islands) followed. He provides a fine and very precise description of Constantinople in the eve of the Greek revolution. He continued later in 1819 in the Black sea visiting several ports around and mentioning the presence of Greek population almost in all places. This account has been published only once and in Swedish. Only three copies survived in public institutions worldwide (Stockholm Library, British Library and Princeton), never has it appeared in any auction at the last 45 years and seems to be absent in all important private collections (Atabey,Blackmer etc). EXTREMELY RARE