Boue Ami: “Recueil d Itineraires dans la Turquie d Europe, details geographiques,topographiques et statistiques sur cet Empire “.Vienne 1854 First edition, in 4to 24x15,5cm,original publishers paper covers very slightly frayed at edges, two volumes complete,half-titles,352p.[1],345p.,text clean and bright, overall in very good plus condition, partly unopened, a fresh as published set. Ami Boue travelled extensively in the Balkans, especially in Macedonia and Thrace in the late 1830s.He published a comprehensive account for his discoveries in 1840 (Atabey 141), but his travel itineraries were not published then. This is the first edition of his extremely detailed calendar itineraries, a unique information for all ancient routes in Macedonia and Thrace,as the arrival of the railways and the roads in the coming years would change forever the travel shape in the Balkan peninsula. He provides astonishing information for people, villages, landscape, ethnological composition, commercial roads and trends all around the area of European Turkey. Not in Atabey,Blackmer or any other known collection. Very rare and in very fresh condition.