ESTOURMEL, Joseph d’, Comte, "Journal d’un Voyage en Orient", Crapelet, Paris, 1844. THREE (3) Volumes, including 2 Volumes of Text and 1 Volume with 80 continuous numbered plates entitled “ALBUM”, all bearing “Crapelet, 1844” edition details in title pages.

Most probably A SEPARATE EDITION PUBLISHED IN 1844, THE SAME YEAR AS THE FIRST EDITION, by Crapelet.

The common First edition includes 160 plates bound in with text of 2 Volumes. However, a “tirage apart” edition of 1844, with 80 lithographic plates bounded a separate volume, is noted in in EJF Collection, while a second edition of 1848 is tracked in Contominas collection with exactly the same number and sequence of plates (Contominas 240).

Joseph Count of Estourmel (1783-1853) travelled the Greek coast from June 1832 to September 1833. On this voyage to Greece, Asia Minor, Egypt and Syria he met other well-known travellers-political figures, such as J. Michaud, L. Fauvel and others. Although Estourmel was travelling together with Swiss painter J.J. Wolfensberger, the lithographs in this album are based mainly on his own sketches. Through them we can outline his itinerary: Corfu, Zitsa, Dodone, Nicopolis, Leucas, Missolonghi, Corinth, Cenchreae, Athens, Rhodes, Halicarnassus (Bodrum), Smyrna, the Holy Land, Cairo, Suez, Alexandria, Crete, Malta (Ioli Vingopoulou, travelogues.gr).

Contemporary binding: marbled paper boards & leather spines, rubbed and lightly worn along joints and extremities. Spotting throughout in text and also in plates volume. Water-stains in plates volume. All 80 plates tissue-guarded.

Tracked in only one collection worldwide, Not in BNF or COPAC on line, this edition NOT IN Blackmer, Atabey or Contominas.

Extremely rare.