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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.