Carte détaillée de la Route de l’Auteur Depuis le Golfe de Macri jusqu’a au Méandre

Map of eastern Rhodes and the adjacent Turkish coast showing the route taken by Choiseul-Gouffier from the Greek island to the mainland. In 1776 Choiseul-Gouffier and the artist J.B. Hilaire joined a cartographic survey of the Mediterranean. Volume I of Voyage Pittoresque, his account of their tour of the Greek islands, the coast of Asia Minor, and of his travels on the mainland, was immediately acclaimed on publication in 1778. According to Brunet, it was incontestably the most beautiful production of this kind seen until then. Choiseul-Gouffier's work offered for the first time, illustrations of remote places that complemented the scrupulously researched narrative,