Laborde, Léon Emmanuel Simon Joseph de

First edition, folio (570 x 390mm.), half-title, engraved calligraphic title with large mounted lithographed vignette on india paper, 69 plates, maps (including one large folding engraved map) and plans, of which 65 are lithographs on india paper mounted, 3 double-page, one coloured, wood-engraved illustrations in text, contemporary half calf, spine gilt, short marginal tear to title repaired, occasional light marginal soiling, very slightly rubbed

Archduke Anton Victor of Austria's copy, with his initials in gilt on spine; "The Ottoman World", sale in these rooms, 30 May 2002, lot 1466

Blackmer 929; not in Atabey (but cf. 643 for the 8vo English edition)

the condition of this lot is as described in the catalogue description
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A good copy of an important work, from the library of Archduke Anton Victor of Austria.

Travelling from Cairo in 1828 by way of Suez, Tor, Mount Sinai, the convent of Saint Catherine and Aqaba, Laborde made the journey to Petra with the engineer Linant de Bellefonds, executing many drawings of the area and providing the earliest pictorial record of the ruins.