113 - Tarmini Almerte, Grec d origine: Voyages de la Reine d Angleterre et du Baron Pergami en Allemagne, en Italie, en Grece…, a Jaffa, a Jerusalem, a Constantinople pendant les annees 1814-1820. Paris, 1821

Tarmini Almerte, Grec d origine: Voyages de la Reine d Angleterre et du Baron Pergami en Allemagne, en Italie, en Grece…, a Jaffa, a Jerusalem, a Constantinople pendant les annees 1814-1820. Paris, 1821 Seconde edition, in 8vo, large uncut copy, contemporary publishers paper covers slightly rubbed, complete 174p., text clean,some very light spotting in few pages, last page with marginal loss of blank, overall in very good condition The title page attributes the work to Tarmini Almerté, who describes himself as a Greek by origin who was attached to the Queen’s suite during her travels. Because he was a witness to her private life, the book was marketed as a tell-all,critics and historians often viewed this work as part of the trial literature of the era, designed to either defend or expose the Queen's behavior with her Italian chamberlain, Pergami, who is a central figure in the narrative. Unlike the usual travel accounts the escort follows a luxury royal progress. The Queen’s arrival in Constantinople in 1816, her reception by Ottoman officials, and her stay at the British Palace in Pera. A rare account of a European Queen entering Jerusalem on a donkey, escorted by a convoy of camels. Royal visits to several Aegean islands as Milos, or famous antic cities then still villages in reality, as Athens and Corinth. She did diplomatic stops in Tunis and the Barbary States, which were quite exotic at the time. The French interest in the Queen of England was high because she was seen as a victim of a tyrannical husband. Paris was then the center of European publishing for scandalous memoirs. Written obviously by a Greek in the Queen s escort,it is an unusual Royal travelogue to the Levant.