[Melling, Antoine Ignace.

Estimate

2,000 - 3,000 GBP

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Description

Voyage pittoresque de Constantinople et des rives du Bosphore]. Brussels: J. Goubaud, [?c.1830], 38 hand-coloured lithographed plates (only) from this work, oblong folio (350 x 490mm.), loose, a few slightly soiled or with repaired tears to blank margins

Literature

cf. Atabey 798-9; cf. Weber I, 78

Catalogue Note

rare. Melling's Voyage pittoresque was first published in 1819 with an engraved portrait and 48 plates. This collection of plates, which we have been unable to trace, appears to be a close but reduced copy in lithography of the original work. Weber records a copy of the text (only) printed in Brussels by Wahlen in 1829. These plates were lithographed at the Calcographie Royale de J. Groubaud after Peetermans, Lauters, Plou, Lemonnier and/or Delpierre. The image illustrated opposite may be compared with that on pp.416-7 of Atabey.