Live veiling - Lot 655
[Eastern Europe - Levant]
Voyage du maréchal duc de Raguse en Hongrie, en Transylvanie, dans la Russie méridionale, en Crimée, et sur les bords de la mer d'Azoff, à Constantinople, dans quelques parties de l'Asie-Mineure, en Syrie, en Palestine et en Égypte.
Paris, Ladvocat, 1837-1838
€ 200 / 250
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Beschrijving lot
6 vols. Text: 5 vols., 12mo: [4]-402, [4]-396, [4]-406-[1], [4]-371-[1], [4]-384 pp. (some foxing).-- Atlas 4to: 19 (out of 23) pls.
Text: half brown calf, marbled paper, flat richly guilt-tooled spines (sl. worn).-- Atlas: half red calf, red marbled paper, flat gilt-tooled spine (sl. worn).
"Seconde édition" (mention on the 1st and 2nd vol.), "Première [First] édition" (on the 3rd and 4th vol., the 5th without any mention) issued the same year as the 1st ed., ill. with 19 steel engravings (complete: 8 maps on double pages or folding plate and 11 views of Syria or Egypt). The 5th vol. is related to Sicilia. Marmont (1774-1852) was a French general and nobleman who rose to the rank of Marshal of France by Napoleon, was made knight of the Order of the Holy Spirit and a Grand Officer of the Order of St Louis by Louis XVIII and was awarded the title Duke of Ragusa. He stayed loyal to Louis XVIII during the Hundred Days. After the July Revolution, he accompanied the king into exile and forfeited his marshalate. His desire to return to France was never gratified and he travelled in central and eastern Europe and in the Middle East, settling finally in Vienna. He died in Venice. Prov. Count Charles de Divonne (label).