Lot 133: REY, ETIENNE.

REY, ETIENNE. VOYAGE PITTORESQUE EN GRÈCE ET DANS LE LEVANT FAIT EN 1843-1844. LYON: LOUIS PERRIN & CLAUDE BONNAVIAT, 1867 First edition, 2 volumes in one, folio (470 x 327mm.), 2 half-titles, 55 lithographed plates, maps and plans (35 + 20), comprising 52 plates on india paper mounted, 2 maps and one plan, 42 lithographed illustrations in text, 2 errata leaves, morocco-backed boards, [Atabey 1037; Blackmer 1412], plates somewhat spotted, binding worn

This work, some fifteen years in preparation, provides a detailed overview of the route taken by Rey and Chenavard on their five month journey from September 1843 through Greece, Asia Minor and Egypt. Most of the plates are of Greece (41), with 12 of Constantinople and Asia Minor, and just 2 of Egypt. Chenavard published his own account in 1858 entitled Voyage en Grèce et dans le Levant.