DUPRE, Louis.
Voyage à Athènes et à Constantinople,
ou collection de portraits, vues et costumes Grecs et Ottomans.
Description
First edition, folio (59.2 x 43.8 cm), engraved title page, dedication, 52 pp., 12 engraved vignettes in text, 40 fine hand-coloured lithographs by Lemercier after Dupré, all plates titled and numbered, and blind-stamped with the artist's monogram encircled; complete with the Turkish Firman, text leaves a bit spotted, small marginal repair to lower blank margin plate 1, last plate a little toned with small marginal repairs to verso, all tissue guards taped to verso of preceding plate, contemporary Greek red half morocco gilt by Lardi of Athens with his ticket, neatly rebacked, corners renewed, covers a little spotted.
Bibliography
Atabey 381; Blackmer 517; Colas 916; Koç II, 243; Lipperheide 1434.
Stock ID:98719