ID 1026990
Lot 135 | [Athènes monumentale et pittoresque. Paris: Auguste Bry, c.1845-6], oblong folio
Estimate value
£ 4 000 – 6 000
Oblong folio (419 x 597mm.), a bound volume of 17 lithographed views of Athens (some plates with 2 views), with a manuscript ink list of the 17 plates dated 1852 pasted on preliminary free endpaper, nineteenth-century red cloth-backed boards, upper cover titled "Ansichten aus Griechenland", some spotting, binding worn
Théodose Du Moncel's travels in Greece and Turkey from November 1843 to the spring of 1844 resulted in a number of publications, often with overlapping contents: De Venise a Constantinople a travers la Grèce et retour par Malte, Messine, Pizzo et Naples (c.1845); Excursion par terre d'Athenes a Nauplie (1845), and the present work (sometimes entitled Vues pittoresques des monuments d'Athenes).
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