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Du Moncel, Théodose.
Description
- De Venise à Constantinople à travers la Grèce et retour par Malte, Messine, Pizzo et Naples. Paris: imp. par Auguste Bry, chez Léon Hocdé, no date [c.1845]
Literature
Catalogue Note
a rare work containing fine views of venice, corfu, athens, corinth, constantinople, malta, and elsewhere.
Théodose Du Moncel travelled in Greece and Turkey from November 1843 to the spring of 1844 spawning a number of publications, often with overlapping contents: Athènes monumentale et pittoresque [sometimes entitled Vues pittoresques des monuments d'Athènes] (1845 or 1846); Excursion par terre d'Athènes à Nauplie (1845), and this one. It seems that the present work, which has the most plates, was the first to appear and the others derive from it. They are all very rare.
The plates in this work are of a high standard and comprise:
[General title] Lépante; [sub-title] Episode de la Guerre de l'Indépendance; 1. Carte de Grèce; 2 & 3. Venise; 4. Ancône; 5. Corfou; 6. Patras; 7. Curzola; Calamaki (2 views); 8-23. [Views in Athens, including a folding panorama]; 24. Monastère de Daphnée; 25. Eleusis; 26. Mégare; 27-31 [Views in and around Corinth]; 32. Temple de Némée et tombeau d'Agamemnon (2 views); 33. Acropole de Micènes; 34. Porte des lions; 35. Ruines de Tirynthe; 36. Vue de la plaine d'Argos; 36 bis. Antiquités d'Argos; 37. Nauplie; 38. Temple de Jupiter à Egine; 39. Temple de Sunium; 40. Syra; 41. Folieri (Phocée); 42. Smyrne; 43. Panorama de la Troade (folding plate with 3 views); 44. Les Dardanelles; 45. Constantinople; 46 & 47. Malte; 48. Messine; 49. Pizzo; 50 & 51. Naples.