DUPRÉ, Louis. Voyage à Athènes et à Constantinople, ou Collection

FIRST EDITION. large folio (583 x 423 mm.), 52 pp. (reinforcement along the horizontal fold of the folding plate, faint spotting to one text leaf: pp. 23-4). With 40 hand-colored lithographs, most of them bearing the artist's blind stamp, folding plate with facsimile of Turkish passport at the end (partly hand-colored), 12 large lithograph vignettes in the text. Modern quarter morocco (spine gilt-ruled). Blackmer 517, Atabey 381, Ioannou pp. 146-7, Brunet, II, col. 900, Weber, I, 131, Colas 916, Droulia 1277. --- EXCEPTIONAL COPY OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL TRAVEL BOOK ON GREECE. --- L. Dupré (1789-1837) reached Kerkyra in early March 1819. Afterwards, he went to Ioannina, traversed continental Greece and arrived in Athens in mid-April. Two months later he departed for Constantinople, where he stayed until September. In the cities that he visited he was received by the local ruling class and he met important foreigners who where then in the Orient. His pure philhellenic sentiments and his love for the land and people are apparent in his text and lithographs. Author: DUPRÉ, Louis. Title: Voyage à Athènes et à Constantinople, ou Collection de portraits, de vues et de costumes grecs et ottomans, peints sur les lieux, d’après nature, lithographiés et coloriés par L. Dupré, élève de David. Publication info: Παρίσι, Dondey-Dupré, 1825[-1839].

Estimate:£33,512.72

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