De Marcellus M.: “Episodes litteraires en Orient-Voyage en Bithinie-le Venus de Milo”. Paris 1851

First edition. Tall in 8vo 23x15cm,two volumes complete, contemporary leather over boards preserving the fine publishers paper covers,half-titles416p.470p.[1], few water stain in the first three pages only, including title, two three tiny inoffensive spots in first volume and one stamp in the same volume, otherwise clean and bright, overall in very good plus condition.

Marcellus stayed years in the Levant, as diplomatic agent in Constantinople and was present in the discovery of the statue of Aphrodite in Milos in 1820.This account deals with his late travel in Bythinia, in Asia Minor, during 1840 and covers almost all first volume. A very detailed early account all around northwest Anatolia full with invaluable information. As Marcellus had been accused for the circumstances of transfer and the damages and losses at the famous sculpture of Aphrodite , he provides his own view for the events in Milos,  occurred thirty years, before in a separate chapter. Not in Atabey or Blackmer. Scarce