
HERVÉ (FRANCIS) A Residence in Greece and Turkey; with Notes of the Journey through Bulgaria, Servia, Hungary, and the Balkan, 2 vol., first edition, Whittaker, 1837
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HERVÉ (FRANCIS)
Footnotes
FIRST EDITION IN VERY RARE PUBLISHER'S BINDING. Hervé visited Greece and Constantinople in 1833, and provides an entertaining account of the customs, and quirks, of the Greeks he encountered. Hervé, an artist, was commissioned by the General Church to do a series of portraits of the leaders of the revolution, of which some (Mavrocordato, Canaris, Mavromichalis, and King Otho) are reproduced in this work.
Provenance: Hugh Gordon Lumsden (1850-1916), of Clova, Aberdeenshire, ownership inscription on front free endpapers, and "Clova House" stamp in 4 places. Lumsden "spent part of every years in Spain, where he took delight in collecting curios. His museum at Clova is full of valuable articles of vertu, archaeological and artistic" (Obituary in The Tablet, April 22, 1916, p.28).