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TEXIER, Charles-Felix-Marie. Description de l'Armnie, la Perse et la Msopotamie. Paris: Firmin Didot frres, 1842-1852. 2 volumes, 2 (553 x 360mm). Half-titles. Chromolithographic additional title to vol. I, 3 lithographed double-page maps (the first two designed to form one large folding map), 149 plates (8 chromolithographs, 3 uncoloured lithogaphs and 138 engraved plates). (Dampstained throughout, some browning, some spotting, occasionally heavy.) Later cloth-backed boards (affected by damp, hinges slightly split).
TEXIER, Charles-Felix-Marie. Description de l'Armnie, la Perse et la Msopotamie. Paris: Firmin Didot frres, 1842-1852. 2 volumes, 2 (553 x 360mm). Half-titles. Chromolithographic additional title to vol. I, 3 lithographed double-page maps (the first two designed to form one large folding map), 149 plates (8 chromolithographs, 3 uncoloured lithogaphs and 138 engraved plates). (Dampstained throughout, some browning, some spotting, occasionally heavy.) Later cloth-backed boards (affected by damp, hinges slightly split).

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TEXIER, Charles-Felix-Marie. Description de l'Armnie, la Perse et la Msopotamie. Paris: Firmin Didot frres, 1842-1852. 2 volumes, 2 (553 x 360mm). Half-titles. Chromolithographic additional title to vol. I, 3 lithographed double-page maps (the first two designed to form one large folding map), 149 plates (8 chromolithographs, 3 uncoloured lithogaphs and 138 engraved plates). (Dampstained throughout, some browning, some spotting, occasionally heavy.) Later cloth-backed boards (affected by damp, hinges slightly split).

FIRST EDITION, RARE AT AUCTION. The work was published in 31 parts at 20fr. per part. Brunet speaks of the present work and Texier's Description de l'Asie Mineure (1839-49, 3 vols.) as "deux beaux ouvrages se recommandent aux savants et aux artistes par l'intrt du texte et l'exactitude des planches": Brunet V, 769. (2)

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