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DUPRÉ, Louis. Voyage à Athènes et à Constantinople, ou Collection de Portraits, de Vues et de Costumes Grecs et Ottomans, Paris: Dondey-Dupré, 1825 [-1837].
Large 2° (545 x 400mm.), printed title, dedication, 52pp. text illustrated with 12 uncoloured lithographed vignettes and 40 fine hand-coloured plates lithographed by Formentin, Motte and others after Dupré (title with vertical crease; lacking half-title and double-page Turkish passport plate; plate 19 l'Acropolis and one other with slight marginal spotting, but in general the plates in good condition with little discolouration by size). Contemporary roan-backed boards (slightly rubbed).
FIRST EDITION. Colas 916; Lipperheide 1434; Blackmer 517 "probably the most beautiful [book] ever produced on Greece and Turkey".
Large 2° (545 x 400mm.), printed title, dedication, 52pp. text illustrated with 12 uncoloured lithographed vignettes and 40 fine hand-coloured plates lithographed by Formentin, Motte and others after Dupré (title with vertical crease; lacking half-title and double-page Turkish passport plate; plate 19 l'Acropolis and one other with slight marginal spotting, but in general the plates in good condition with little discolouration by size). Contemporary roan-backed boards (slightly rubbed).
FIRST EDITION. Colas 916; Lipperheide 1434; Blackmer 517 "probably the most beautiful [book] ever produced on Greece and Turkey".