Texier, Charles and R. Popplewell Pullan.

Estimate

1,800 - 2,400 GBP

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Description

Byzantine Architecture; illustrated by examples of edifices erected in the East. London: Day & Son, 1864

first english edition, folio (425 x 290mm.), half-title, chromolithographed additional title and 68 tinted lithographed or chromolithographed plates, mostly after Texier, 2 double-page, illustrations in text, modern cloth with the original decorative cloth gilt laid down, gilt edges, some dampstaining

Provenance

Henry Blackmer, book label; Sefik E. Atabey, book label

Literature

Blackmer 1647; Atabey 1213

Catalogue Note

Pullan was architect to the Bodrum Expedition sent to survey the Mausoleum in 1857 and also carried out various excavations as agent for the Society of Dilettanti. Texier was in Asia Minor much earlier, but the two collaborated to produce this interesting work.