LE CHEVALIER

VOYAGE DE LA PROPONTIDE DU PONT-EUXIN

LE CHEVALIER

Paris, 1800

First Edition, 2 Volumes, 20.5 x 13 cm.

with 6 folding engraved maps

“Le Chevalier had assisted Choiseul-Gouffier in his ‘Voyage pittoresque de la Grèce’, and was then sent to Jassy to observe Russian troop movements. His work is an account of a journey round the shores of the Sea of Marmara and the Black Sea” (Atabey).

Lechevalier stood in the service of Choiseul-Gouffier; from 1787 onwards he accompanied Alexander Ipsilanti on a tour of the Mediterranean which lasted several months. The maps show the Sea of Marmara, the Dardanelles, the Black Sea, the Bosporus, Constantinople, and Brussa.