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Colonel Bernard Eugene Antoine ROTTIERS
Itineraire De Tiflis a Constantinople
AUTHOR
Colonel Bernard Eugene Antoine ROTTIERS
PUBLISHER
Chez Frechet, Bruxelles
YEAR
1829
NOTES
First edition
377 pages
six engraved plates
3 maps, one of Constantinople, one of Bosporus and one of the Black Sea
Size: 23 x 11.5 cm
This book is rare
Provenance
private collection, Cyprus
Literature
Blackmer 966
Exhibited
Estimate
€ 400 - 600
Sold for 485.68 €
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Notes
Bernard Eugene Antoine Rottiers who was born in Antwerp, was a Flemish-Dutch soldier, author and collector of antiquities.
The three “Rottiers collections” brought together by him form an important part of the basic collection of the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden.
Whilst under the service of King William I of the Netherlands, in 1824, Rottiers proposed to the king to undertake a trip to Greece with the aim of purchasing antiquities there. The king and government agreed and made Rottiers available a warship and money. The journey lasted a year and a half and covered most of the years 1825 and 1826. Rottiers was accompanied during this trip by his youngest son Victor and the painter Petrus Josephus Witdoeck.