Aux Sanctuaires Grecs.

Estimate

2,000 - 3,000 GBP

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Description

Paques 1912. XLVIIme croisière de la "Revue Générale des Sciences". [?Paris, 1912]
paper

Limited to 130 copies, 4to (400 x 300mm.), numerous photographic illustrations, original coloured pictorial wrappers, uncut, in original patterned box, spine slightly torn, box worn

Catalogue Note

A rare record of a cruise undertaken 30 March - 21 April 1912 with photographs showing the places visited and works of art seen and text with lectures, passenger list and the itinerary (Olympia, Delphi, Corinth, Nauplia, Sparta, Athens, Meteora, Delos, Santorini, Crete, Syracuse, etc.). The recipient of this copy was Gaston Poulenc.