Pertusier, Charles.

First edition, 4 volumes (including atlas), comprising 3 volumes text 8vo (200 x 124mm.) and atlas folio (577 x 430mm.), each volume with half-title, atlas with 25 aquatint plates by Piringer after Préault, printed on india paper and mounted, 4 double-page, contemporary mottled boards, expertly and finely rebacked with red morocco (spines gilt and with black morocco labels, new endpapers), original printed livraison wrappers to one part bound into atlas volume, [Atabey 941; Blackmer 1292; Weber I, 39-40], occasional slight spotting to text

A good copy. Pertusier was in Constantinople for several years as aide-de-campe to General Andreossy who was French ambassador to the Porte. "The atlas (which is of some rarity) contains fine and very interesting plates by Michel-François Preault, an architect... His illustrations are to be found in works by Andreossy and others... [and] many of his drawings were engraved for Clarke's Travels... The drawings he produced for Pertusier, engraved by Piringer, are among his finest" (Blackmer).