Lot 34: Louis Dupré (1789-1837) Voyage à Athènes et à Constantinople. 1825

DUPRÉ, Louis (1789-1837) . Voyage à Athènes et à Constantinople, ou collection de portraits, de vues et de costumes Grecs et Ottomans. Paris: Dondey-Dupré, 1825. 'Probably the most beautiful [book] ever produced on Greece and Turkey' (Blackmer) . Atabey 381; Blackmer 517; Colas 916; Lipperheide Lb 52.2° (560 x 420mm.) One double-page and 37 (of 40) hand-coloured lithographic plates, 12 plain lithographic illustrations in text. (Lacking half-title, and pls. VIII, XIX and XL, title creased and cut-down and mounted, dedication with corner repaired and the whole mounted, first leaf of text and leaf 16 with repaired corners, pls. XXXVI-XXXIX torn and repaired to verso but without loss, the whole text-block loose with associated fraying to a few edges and some occasional light spotting and creasing from damp, the plates washed with associated discolouration.) Modern half leather (extremities lightly rubbed) .

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