Lot 51
  • 51

Depping, George Bernard.

Estimate
350 - 450 GBP
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Description

  • La Grèce, ou description topographique de la Livadie, de la Morée et de l'Archipel. Paris: chez Ferra jeune, 1823
first edition, 4 volumes, 12mo (132 x 80mm.), half-titles, folding engraved map hand-coloured in outline, 8 double-page hand-coloured engraved plates, contemporary calf gilt, gilt edges, slightly dampstained at head of text, page, pp.121-4 torn in corner with loss of one letter, binding slightly worn, rebacked

Provenance

Comtesse Arthur de Pourtalès, Chateau Gorgier, Suisse, 1878, inscription in 3 volumes

Literature

cf. Blackmer 472 (second edition, 1830); Cobham-Jeffery p.15; Droulia 401-404

Catalogue Note

Depping wrote many works on geography and this one is derived from Gell, Castellan, Clarke, Walpole, Leake and others, with the plates after Dodwell. The contents of the volumes are as follows: vol.1 Les Grecs; Grande Grèce ou Livadie. vol.2 Péloponnèse ou Morée. vol.3 Archipel. vol.4 Rhodes; Cypre; Crète; Ténédos; Troade.