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Flandin, Eugène.
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
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Description
- L'Orient. Paris: Gide et J. Baudry, 1853
first edition, [volume 1], folio (535 x 342mm.), half-title, lithographed additional title and 40 plates by Flandin, numbered 1-40, contemporary red morocco-backed cloth, with 40 plates and descriptive text to plates 1-31 only (see footnote), slightly spotted, binding somewhat worn
Literature
Atabey 437; Blackmer 601; Weber I, 1157
Catalogue Note
This work was published in at least eighteen parts over a period of twenty-three years, beginning in 1853 and if complete is usually found in four volumes, each with fifty plates, making a total of two hundred plates. This copy of the first volume (which is entitled "Bosphore, Stamboul, Smyrne") contains the first forty plates which are of the Bosphorus and Constantinople (but not Smyrna). Later volumes depict other locations in the east such as Rhodes, Syria, Mesopotamia, etc.
This set seems to have been bound up around the time of publication and provides a good collection of the Constantinople plates. The Atabey collection also contained a copy of just volume 1 (as well as the complete set).