- 91
Dupré, Louis.
Estimate
25,000 - 30,000 GBP
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Description
- Voyage à Athènes et à Constantinople, ou collection de portraits, de vues et de costumes grecs et ottomans. Paris: Dondey-Dupré, 1825
- paper
First edition, folio (596 x 455mm.), half-title, 38 lithographed plates printed on india paper and mounted on thick paper (of 40), lithographed illustrations in text, contemporary half cloth, upper cover with title in gilt, [Atabey 381; Blackmer 517; Droulia 901], lacks plates 8 (Ali Pacha) and 31 (Démétrius Mavromichallis) and the passport, text spotted, mounts rather spotted or browned, first plate slightly spotted, binding slightly worn
Catalogue Note
A highly unusual uncoloured copy of a book described by Blackmer as "probably the most beautiful [book] ever produced on Greece and Turkey". Here the plates are printed on india paper and mounted rather than having been coloured. We can find no record of a plain copy being offered for sale.