Forbin, Louis Nicolas Philippe Auguste, comte de.

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 GBP

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Description

Voyage dans le Levant. Paris: L'Imprimerie Royale, 1819
paper

First edition, [limited to 325 copies], folio (505 x 374mm.), 80 plates, comprising 70 lithographed, 8 aquatint and 2 engraved (plans), 9 folding, contemporary calf-backed boards, [Atabey 447; Blackmer 614; cf. Weber I, 70 (with only 60 plates)], 5 folding plates (no. 55, 62, 63, 73 and 80) trimmed to edge of image and remargined (not affecting captions), no.73 with slight loss to image, some waterstaining, spotting and browning, heavy in places, joints splitting, spine somewhat worn

Catalogue Note

"Forbin's was one of the first important French books to use lithography on a grand scale, and the standard of production is equal to that of Napoléon's Description de l'Egypte or Denon's Voyage" (Blackmer).