Azais P.: “Journal d’un Voyage en Orient”, Avignon 1858 First and only edition, small 8vo 17x10cm,contemporary cloth over boards, rubbed, internal clean with some contemporary notes in half title, title and few pages, a little dusty, complete 390p., overall very good. Azais, a French from Avignon south France travelled with Domergue in the Levant during the early 1850s. After visiting the Holy Land, Lebanon and Syria, he continued to south Anatolia and arrived in Rhodes. Half of his travel account covers Greece. He visited and described in details Rhodes, Kos, Patmos, Samos, Chios, Smyrna, Constantinople and its surroundings, Syros and finally Athens where he provides a lengthy account for the modern city. Azais returned to his native small city, Avignon, and published privately his valuable account in 1858 in small print run. As a provincial private publication escaped general attention, very few copies survived in all public libraries worldwide, it is absent from all major known private collections (Atabey,Blackmer etc) and it’s actually EXTREMELY RARE.