149 - VIVIEN DE SAINT MARTIN: Description Historique et Géographique de l’ Asie Mineure… avec un précis détaillé des voyages qui one été faits dans la péninsule /Hadji-Khalfa: Description de l Asie Mineure, extrait de la géographie turque et imprimee pour la première fois. Paris, 1852

VIVIEN DE SAINT MARTIN: Description Historique et Géographique de l’ Asie Mineure… avec un précis détaillé des voyages qui one été faits dans la péninsule /Hadji-Khalfa: Description de l Asie Mineure, extrait de la géographie turque et imprimee pour la première fois. Paris, 1852 First and only edition of the most important mid 19th century work for Asia Minor. In large 8vo. Contemporary leather over boards, complete in two volumes, second volume contain also, in continuous pagination the first edition of Hadji Khalfa description of Anatolia, [68] 548p., [43] 813p., some scattered spotting, few pages with foxing, generally clean and bright,overall in very good condition. Vivient de Saint Martin (1802-1896), a French geographer and specialist in history of geography, great work is a kind of encyclopedia for Asia Minor.In first volume, he gathered all the early travels in or through Anatolia, from the ancient Greeks up to crusaders or the mid 15th century travelers,many at first edition, to present a comprehensive image of the huge peninsula during those times,as described by travelers. The second volume deals in the first part, around 400 pages, with all available travel accounts in Asia Minor from the 16th century up to his own time, the mid 19th century. An amazing amount of information by travelers, many of those travels had not been still noticed. Follows the first ever comprehensive geographical description of Asia Minor, region by region, with all rivers, mountains, towns etc., for most of them still then a very confusing image existed.Final main part of his publication includes, in 100 pages and in first edition, the part for Asia Minor of the famous Turkish geography of Hadji Khalfa (1609-1657)who provides a unique Islamic geography of mid 17th century for Anatolia. In the appendix there is a very detailed list of the amazing number of 381 travel accounts for Asia Minor which the author had analyzed.The two maps announced for this publication were not finally printed,some later copies had maps from another publication of Saint Martin, from his Atlas of historical Geography. References: Not in Atabey or Blackmer. A unique publication for Asia Minor.