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BORY DE SAINT VINCENT, Jean Baptiste (1778?-1846). Histoire et Description Des Iles Ioniennes. Paris: Dondey-Dupré père et fils, 1823.
2 volumes, text, 8° (204 x 120mm.) and atlas, 2° (355 x 265mm). Text volume with half-title (but somewhat spotted throughout), plate volume with wood-engraved title vignette, 16 lithographic plates, plans and maps, 1 folding, 2 engraved plates of coins. (Some light spotting to plates, marginal in the main.) Text in contemporary red straight-grained morocco gilt, g.e. Atlas bound in original boards, title label on upper cover (somewhat rubbed, rebacked). Provenance: Henry Blackmer (booklabels, sale Sothebys 11 October 1989 lot 413).
FIRST EDITION, second issue with Atlas. The bulk of the text for this work is by Antoine Schneider, the whole was edited by Bory de Saint Vincent. Blackmer 168. (2)
2 volumes, text, 8° (204 x 120mm.) and atlas, 2° (355 x 265mm). Text volume with half-title (but somewhat spotted throughout), plate volume with wood-engraved title vignette, 16 lithographic plates, plans and maps, 1 folding, 2 engraved plates of coins. (Some light spotting to plates, marginal in the main.) Text in contemporary red straight-grained morocco gilt, g.e. Atlas bound in original boards, title label on upper cover (somewhat rubbed, rebacked). Provenance: Henry Blackmer (booklabels, sale Sothebys 11 October 1989 lot 413).
FIRST EDITION, second issue with Atlas. The bulk of the text for this work is by Antoine Schneider, the whole was edited by Bory de Saint Vincent. Blackmer 168. (2)