DALLAWAY Jacques,

"Constantinople ancienne et moderne, et description des cοtes et isles de lArchipel et de la Troade...", Paris, chez Denné jeune, AN VII [=1799]. Complete in 2 Volumes. First edition in French, translated by A. Morellet. 8vo, pp.viii, 371, [1] + iii, 292. With 2 folding plates, a folding map of the Troy plain & a folding table. Dallaway spent 18 months in Constantinople as chaplain to Listons embassy. He travelled in Troad in 1794 along with the draughtsman G. Mercati that prepared the drawings included in the current edition (engr. by Bovinet). Contemporary foul-calf. Worn along edges, corners & joints. Tears along folds of plates, water-stain on lower part (2nd vol.). Highly decorated Ex-libris label "Jacob Mattheis" & cachets in russian. Atabey 309, Contominas 183.