- 97
[Hess, Peter von.
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
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Description
- Album of Greek Heroism, or the Deliverance of Greece. Munich: H. Kohler, c.1835]
first edition, folio (510 x 384mm.), lithographed dedication leaf printed in gold, tinted lithographed pictorial title and 39 plates, by J.B. Kuhn after Peter von Hess, all within decorative borders incorporating captions in Greek, English, French and German, loose within modern green cloth portfolio, red morocco label lettered in gilt on upper cover, lacking second title-page and leaf of descriptive letterpress, occasional faint spotting in margins, title with repair to corner
Literature
not in blackmer or droulia
Catalogue Note
one of the most celebrated collections of illustrations relating to the events of the greek war of independence.