Lot 176: ROTTIERS, BERNARD EUGENE ANTOINE.

Description des monumens de Rhodes. Brussels: Colinez, 1830-1828

Condition Note:

first edition of atlas, second of text, 2 volumes, 4to (260 x 200mm.) and oblong folio (310 x 420mm.), text volume with half-title and lithographed portrait, atlas with lithographed title, list of plates, map and 74 lithographed plates, 8 coloured by hand, text bound in morocco-backed boards, atlas in modern morocco-backed boards with original upper wrapper mounted on front, some browning in atlas, text binding rubbed

Atabey 1056; Blackmer 1450; Droulia 1474; Weber I, 163

Rottiers's mission to Rhodes was undertaken in 1826 with permission of the Turkish authorities at the request of the King of the Netherlands. He was accompanied by his son and the artist P.J. Witdoeck. The engraved portrait is often absent from the 1830 text, but is present here.