Lot 79
  • 79

Giraudeau de St. Gervais, Jean.

Estimate
500 - 700 GBP
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Description

  • L'Italie, la Sicile, Malte, la Grèce, l'Archipel, les iles Ioniennes et la Turquie... seconde édition. Paris: chez l'auteur [and others], 1835
Second edition, 8vo (220 x 140mm.), 14 lithographed plates, 2 folding, woodcut vignette illustrations in text, 10 of which are printed again on 2 leaves at end, modern calf, original printed wrappers bound in, uncut, original wrappers soiled

Literature

Blackmer 692; Weber I, 230 (first edition, published in the same year); not in Atabey

Catalogue Note

A steamship cruise to the Levant accompanied by Maximilian of Bavaria, brother of the newly crowned King Otho, and the Duchesse de Berry. Another account of this trip was written by Marchebeus (see lot 136).