Lot 32

[Greece] - Dupré, Louis

[Voyage A Athènes et A Constantinople]

£2,250

Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs

Auction: 17 June 2020 at 11:00 BST

Description

Paris: Dondey-Dupré, 1825. Folio, 13 hand-coloured lithograph plates only, numbers: 1 (Photo Pikos), with corner loss; 13 (Jeune Grec Thessalien); 15 (Un Grec Logothète de Livade), light marginal chipping; 16 (Une Demoiselle Grecque de Livadie), some spotting, slight loss of top blank corner; 17 (Un Tartare et les fragmens du Lion de Chéronnée); 22 (Le Temple de Jupiter Olympien...); 23 (Vue de l'Acropolis); 29 (Une Mosquée A Athênes); 30 (Demetrius Mavromichalis), some small white paint flecks; 32 (Un Arménien); 33 (Un Prince Arménien et sa femme), white paint flecks; 36, (Kalioundji); 37 (Title obscured by reverse of print pasted over it); some lightly spotted or lightly discoloured, most with short marginal tears, loose with title page (13 lithographs)