Live auction - Lot 561
[Greece - Turkey]
Voyage pittoresque dans l'Empire Ottoman. Atlas.
Paris, J.-P. Aillaud, 1842
Hammer price: €
2.800
€ 300 / 400
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Lot description
2 vol., folio; 2 engr. titles and 188 ff. (some spotting throughout, vol. 1: some marg. dampst. touching pl. in first and last part, some ff. toned, some pl. with a marg. tear at the gutter, pl. 71 of vol. 2 bound in vol. 1, pl. 68 of vol. 2 bound at the end).
Contemp. quarter black sheep, blind-stamped percaline boards with gilt title, flat spine (front board of vol. 1 detached, large parts of spines missing, boards sl. rubbed, corners bumped).
Atlas only of this quite rare second, posthumously ed. of Choiseul-Gouffier's work first published as "Voyage pittoresque de la Grece [...]". Ill. with an engr. portrait, pl. 1-126 on 99 ff. in vol. 1 (no pl. 125, but 2 different pl. 126), pl. 1-159 pl. on 71 ff. in vol. 2, incl. 33bis, 33ter, 67bis, 67ter and 76bis (of which 4 are folding maps) and 14 (11, 3) ff. with various headpieces (Atabey only mentions 1). Enriched (?) with 2 folding maps not mentioned in Atabey.
Ref. Atabey 242. - Chadenat 5037 (main work without atlas).