PITON (Eugène-Constant). Pèlerinages & Voyages Pittoresq - Lot 276

PITON (Eugène-Constant). Pèlerinages & Voyages Pittoresques en Orient. Publiés D'après Les Relations De Buckingham, Burckhardt, Fraser, Finlayson... Paris, Maumus, 1835. In-12, [2] ff. (fx. title, frontispiece), 305 pp. 2 plates. Later fawn half-chagrin, smooth spine, havana title page (marginal soiling, wetness on some leaves). This work contains accounts of voyages to Mecca, the Celebes Islands, the Moluccas, Persia, Medina, Malacca, Palestine and Syria, from Aleppo to Baghdad, the Burmese Empire, Peking and from Calcutta to the sources of the Ganges. Illustrations include an engraved title vignette, a frontispiece and three copper-engraved plates depicting pilgrims in Mecca, a view of Malacca Bay and a scene of an encounter with Arab thieves.