[René SPITAELS] - From Brussels to Constantinople.... - Lot 454 - Morel de Westgaver

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[René SPITAELS] - From Brussels to Constantinople.... - Lot 454 - Morel de Westgaver
[René SPITAELS] - From Brussels to Constantinople. By a Flemish tourist. Volume one [- three]. Brussels, Librairie polytechnique, [1839-1841]. 3 volumes bound in 2 in-12, 175 x 105 mm, contemporary green half calf signed Canon, smooth spine decorated, title and greefs, marbled edges. [4], 256; [8], 240, [1], [1 bl.]; [8], 524 pp. 3 engraved title-frontispieces after a drawing by J. Coomans, vignettes. AUTOGRAPHIC SENT FROM THE AUTHOR TO NORBERT D'HUYVETTER, curator of the Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent. Unique edition of this travel report hailed by Charles Potvin (Cinquante ans de liberté, quoted in Biogr. nat., XXIII, col. 457) as "one of the most remarkable and best written books that have appeared in Belgium for a long time", in spite of "its continuous declamations against the monarchical principle and Catholicism". Son of a banker from Grammont, René Spitaels (1809-1849), ardent anti-Dutch patriot, man of letters and press of radical tendency, collaborator of the satirical newspaper Mephistopheles, relates here his peregrinations in Switzerland, Austria and Turkey. He delivers in particular a romantic and sentimental vision of modern Greece in the aftermath of the creation of the Greek state in 1830.
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