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PERTUSIER, Charles de (1779-1836). Atlas des promenades pittoresques dans Constantinople et sur les rives du Bosphore. Paris: P. Didot l'ainé for H. Nicolle, 1817.
2° (573 x 417mm). Half-title, title with woodcut printer's monogram, 25 plates by Benedikt Piringer after Michel-François Préault each in 2 states, etched and aquatint, 4 double-page. (Scattered light spotting.) Contemporary straight-grained red half morocco over marbled boards by Jean-Georges Purgold, flat spine gilt in compartments, lettered in one, the others panelled with gilt fillets (extremities lightly rubbed, spine lightly marked). Provenance: Labédoyère -- Beriah Botfield, bought from Payne & Foss 'Labedoyere's [sale] ... about £6.-.-' (P. & F. Acquisitions).
A FINE FIRST EDITION ON PAPIER VéLIN WITH PROOF PLATES BEFORE TITLES IN TWO STATES. Pertusier's Promenades pittoresques dans Constantinople was issued in three octavo volumes in 1815, and the present Atlas was published to accompany it two years later. The plates are after Préault, 'an architect who had travelled to Constantinople in 1796 with a French company of engineers engaged to construct new army and navy barracks... The drawings he produced for Pertusier, engraved by Piringer, are among his finest' (Blackmer).
Both suites of 25 plates in the present copy are in proof states; none of them bear the titles, and of the etched plates 18 have the name of the artist and engraver incised below the image, as do 21 of the aquatint plates (the names were expanded and re-engraved in a more formal style for the finished plates). Brunet records that normal copies of the Atlas were offered at 180 francs and copies on papier vélin with plates 'avant la lettre' at 360 francs. The normal copies of the Atlas are described by Blackmer as 'of some rarity', and none of the three copies recorded at auction since 1975 by ABPC or the two Atabey copies contain proof plates. This copy is further distinguished by the binding, executed by J.-G. Purgold (?1784-1829), probably shortly after the date of publication. Purgold was one of the leading French binders of the romantic period and was celebrated in Mathurin-Marie Lesné's poem La Reliure thus: 'les véritables connaisseurs regardent à juste titre Purgold comme le prince des relieurs de son temps' (quoted in: Paul Culot Relieurs et reliures décorées en France à l'époque romantique (Brussels: 1995, p.542). Atabey 941; Blackmer 1292; Brunet IV, 523-524.
2° (573 x 417mm). Half-title, title with woodcut printer's monogram, 25 plates by Benedikt Piringer after Michel-François Préault each in 2 states, etched and aquatint, 4 double-page. (Scattered light spotting.) Contemporary straight-grained red half morocco over marbled boards by Jean-Georges Purgold, flat spine gilt in compartments, lettered in one, the others panelled with gilt fillets (extremities lightly rubbed, spine lightly marked). Provenance: Labédoyère -- Beriah Botfield, bought from Payne & Foss 'Labedoyere's [sale] ... about £6.-.-' (P. & F. Acquisitions).
A FINE FIRST EDITION ON PAPIER VéLIN WITH PROOF PLATES BEFORE TITLES IN TWO STATES. Pertusier's Promenades pittoresques dans Constantinople was issued in three octavo volumes in 1815, and the present Atlas was published to accompany it two years later. The plates are after Préault, 'an architect who had travelled to Constantinople in 1796 with a French company of engineers engaged to construct new army and navy barracks... The drawings he produced for Pertusier, engraved by Piringer, are among his finest' (Blackmer).
Both suites of 25 plates in the present copy are in proof states; none of them bear the titles, and of the etched plates 18 have the name of the artist and engraver incised below the image, as do 21 of the aquatint plates (the names were expanded and re-engraved in a more formal style for the finished plates). Brunet records that normal copies of the Atlas were offered at 180 francs and copies on papier vélin with plates 'avant la lettre' at 360 francs. The normal copies of the Atlas are described by Blackmer as 'of some rarity', and none of the three copies recorded at auction since 1975 by ABPC or the two Atabey copies contain proof plates. This copy is further distinguished by the binding, executed by J.-G. Purgold (?1784-1829), probably shortly after the date of publication. Purgold was one of the leading French binders of the romantic period and was celebrated in Mathurin-Marie Lesné's poem La Reliure thus: 'les véritables connaisseurs regardent à juste titre Purgold comme le prince des relieurs de son temps' (quoted in: Paul Culot Relieurs et reliures décorées en France à l'époque romantique (Brussels: 1995, p.542). Atabey 941; Blackmer 1292; Brunet IV, 523-524.
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