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CHOISEUL-GOUFFIER, Marie Gabriel Auguste Florent, Comte de. Voyage Pittoresque de la Grèce. Paris: J.J. Blaise, 1782-1822.
2 volumes in 3, 2° (500 x 320mm.). Half-titles, three engraved titles, portrait of the author by M.F. Dien after Boilly, 2 double-page folding maps and 284 numbered plates, maps and plans on 167 leaves (lacking plate 18 in volume 2, the general map of Troy, but including the bis plates 8 and 76), some double-page or folding, 21 elaborate engraved head- and tail-pieces, double-page letterpress genealogical table. Contemporary red straight-grained morocco, gilt, covers with wide borders in gilt and blind incorporating leaf and flower tools, quadrifoliate cornerpieces, spines elaborately gilt in seven sections, green morocco lettering pieces, gilt inner dentelles, g.e.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF VOLUME I. A very fine copy of Choiseul-Gouffier's account of his tour of Greece in 1776, as part of the Marquis de Chabert's expedition to prepare for a new map of the Mediterranean. The frigate Atalante toured the islands and coast of Asia Minor finishing at Coroni, where Choiseul-Gouffier set off on his tour of the mainland. The success of the first volume of the Voyage Pittoresque was such that he was appointed ambassador at Constantinople in 1784. The second volume was started in 1802 on his return to France, but after Choiseul-Gouffier's death in 1817, the second part of the volume was completed under the direction of Barbié du Bocage. Blackmer 342; Cohen-De Ricci 238. (3)
2 volumes in 3, 2° (500 x 320mm.). Half-titles, three engraved titles, portrait of the author by M.F. Dien after Boilly, 2 double-page folding maps and 284 numbered plates, maps and plans on 167 leaves (lacking plate 18 in volume 2, the general map of Troy, but including the bis plates 8 and 76), some double-page or folding, 21 elaborate engraved head- and tail-pieces, double-page letterpress genealogical table. Contemporary red straight-grained morocco, gilt, covers with wide borders in gilt and blind incorporating leaf and flower tools, quadrifoliate cornerpieces, spines elaborately gilt in seven sections, green morocco lettering pieces, gilt inner dentelles, g.e.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF VOLUME I. A very fine copy of Choiseul-Gouffier's account of his tour of Greece in 1776, as part of the Marquis de Chabert's expedition to prepare for a new map of the Mediterranean. The frigate Atalante toured the islands and coast of Asia Minor finishing at Coroni, where Choiseul-Gouffier set off on his tour of the mainland. The success of the first volume of the Voyage Pittoresque was such that he was appointed ambassador at Constantinople in 1784. The second volume was started in 1802 on his return to France, but after Choiseul-Gouffier's death in 1817, the second part of the volume was completed under the direction of Barbié du Bocage. Blackmer 342; Cohen-De Ricci 238. (3)