Rottiers left Europe in 1808 for Russia where he served with the Georgian army. In 1818 he resigned and returned to Belgium. This work is an account of part of his route home. through the Mediterranean, with the purpose of buying antiquities for the King. The resulting art collection, named after the author Rottiers Collection, became an integral part of the collection of the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden. This volume contains maps of Constantinople and the Bosphorus from the Dardanelles to the Black Sea. There were three issues of this work all published in the same year.

First edition; 8vo (22 x 15 cm); 7 plates (6 numbered) & 3 folding lithographed maps (map of the route browned, some slight fraying to the edges of the other 2 maps), slight spotting throughout; later calf backed marbled boards, marbled endpapers, spine with green label, gilt lettered, original brown paper wrappers bound in; 377pp.

Atabey 1058; Blackmer 1451.