Samos, Northern Aegean.

Tournefort, Joseph Pitton de After Claude Aubriet. Samos costume, antiquities and natural history. "Femmes de Samos"; "Francolin"; "Colonne du Temple de Junon a Samos"; "Bas relief antique qui se voit au coin de L'Eglise de Metelinos dans l'Isle de Samos". Amsterdam Janssoons van Waesberge. 1737
Copper engaraved illustration of costume of females of Samos in the Northern Aegean, above an illustrationof a Francolin [ 2 on 1 plate]; with 2 more illustrations of antiquities in Samos. [3 plates]from Tournefort's "Beschryving van eene Reize naar de Levant" ["Relation D'Un Voyage du Levant"] 1737 [5th edition] large 4to, verso blank. The "bas relief" set in a page of Dutch text[page170, vol1] with text to verso. All dark impressions, with wide margins.
Blackmer/Navari 1318[1st edition]. 212 by 164mm (8¼ by 6½ inches) Costume and Francolin:162x110mm, Column; 90 x106mm Bas relief.    €120

Skyros, Sporades.

Tournefort, Joseph Pitton de After Claude Aubriet. Skyros. Amsterdam Janssoons van Waesberge. 1737
Copper engaraved Birds eye view/ map of the port of Skyros in the Sporades; set in a page of Dutch text [page 175, vol1] from Tournefort's "Beschryving van eene Reize naar de Levant" ["Relation D'Un Voyage du Levant"] 1737 [5th edition] large 4to, text to verso. . Good impression, with wide margins.
Blackmer/Navari 1318[1st edition]. Zacharakis 3538. 108 by 167mm (4¼ by 6½ inches).    €30

Syros, Cyclades.

Tournefort, Joseph Pitton de After Claude Aubriet. SyrosTown "Bourg de Syra" Amsterdam Janssoons van Waesberge. 1737
Copper engaraved view of the town of Syros/Syra in the Cyclades from Tournefort's "Beschryving van eene Reize naar de Levant" ["Relation D'Un Voyage du Levant"] 1737 [5th edition] large 4to, set in a page of Dutch Text [page 127, vol1] text to verso. Dark impression, with very wide margins; some slight off setting from the succeeding plate,
Blackmer/Navari 1318[1st edition]. 105 by 164mm (4¼ by 6½ inches).    €120

Greek Costumes.

Tournefort, Joseph Pitton de. After Claude Aubriet. Costumes of Greek ladies in Constaninople. "Greques de Constantinople", "Femmes Greques en Robbe fourée" Amsterdam. Janssoons van Waesberge. 1737
Copper engraved illustrations of the dress of Greek women living in Constantinople. [2 on 1 plate] from Tournefort's "Beschryving van eene Reize naar de Levant" ["Relation D'Un Voyage du Levant"] 1737 [5th edition] large 4to. verso blank. In the 1737 edition the 2 illustrations of the costumes appear on one plate, in previous editions they were printed individually. Dark impression, with wide margins.
Blackmer/Navari 1318[1st edition]. 215 by 159mm (8½ by 6¼ inches).    €50

Greek Church.

Tournefort, Joseph Pitton de. After Claude Aubriet. Costumes of the Greek Church. Amsterdam. Janssoons van Waesberge. 1737
4 Copper engraved illustrations of the dress of Greek priests, + 2 illustrations of items associated with the church: a form of bell for calling the monks to prayer, and the tool used to collect ladanam for incense.
from Tournefort's "Beschryving van eene Reize naar de Levant" ["Relation D'Un Voyage du Levant"] 1737 [5th edition] large 4to. The costumes are each set in a page of Dutch text with text to verso; the further illustrations are blank to verso. The illustrations are contained within the chapter on "The present state of the Greek Church" Dark impression, with wide margins.
Blackmer/Navari 1318[1st edition]. 100 by 160mm (4 by 6¼ inches) costumes. 169x114mm, bell, 165x114mm tool.    €100

Mytilene, Northern Aegean,

Tournefort, Joseph Pitton de. After Claude Aubriet. Town of Mytilene. "Metelin" Amsterdam Janssoons van Waesberge. 1737
Copper engraved view of Mytilene town, set in apage of Dutch text [page 153, vol1]. from Tournefort's "Beschryving van eene Reize naar de Levant" ["Relation D'Un Voyage du Levant"] 1737 [5th edition] large 4to. Text to verso Dark impression, with wide margins.
Blackmer/Navari 1318[1st edition]. 105 by 162mm (4¼ by 6½ inches).    €140

Scarce map of Greece with Stunning Original Colour.

Valk, Gerardium & Leonardum Greece and the Archipelago. "Graecia et Archipelago, divisus in singulares Regiones Macedoniae, Albaniae, Epiri, Thessaliae, Achaiae et Morea; quibus accedunt Insulae Candia, Corcyra, Cephalonia ,Zcintho, Stalimene, Metelino, Chios etc." Amsterdam Valk, Gerard and Leonard c1702
Copper engraved map of Greece and the Archipelago by Gerard and Leonard Valk. Original full wash colour; verso blank.
The map first appeared in Schenk and Valk's "Atlantis Sylloge Compendiosa," c.1702; it shows the whole Greek peninsular and the Aegean with the coast of Asia Minor and the adjoining countries to the North. The territories of Greece and Albania, Macedonia and the Islands with full wash colour. Major towns heightened with red. Good dark impression with bright original full wash colour; occasional offset of colour; two old ink numbers to blank margins.
The maps of Schenk and Valk are famous for their full wash colour, however often the pigments, particularly in the greens deteriorated leading to browning and eventually causing the paper to crack, for this reason it is unusual to see such bright original colour.
Zacharakis: 3609/2342; Koeman III, p138, Map no 36. 600 by 496mm (23½ by 19½ inches).    €1000