DU MONCEL, Théodose Achille Louis, vicomte. Athènes monumentale et pittoresque.

First separate edition, folio (440 x 350 mm., with small variances), 9 pp. (two vertical folds to the right part of the panorama, the title and the verso of p. 9 very lightly soiled, some margins deeply trimmed, in the case of the panorama with loss of the publication line at the lower, bound at the end the title of Du Moncel's Vues pittoresques des monuments d'Athènes, Paris, Victor Delarue, 1846, restored copy). Descriptive text in 3 columns, folding tinted lithograph panorama and 14 tinted lithograph plates, numbered [I]-XIV (the panorama unnumbered), one of which with two lithographs (no. VI), engraved by Du Moncel after his own sketches (and after A. Bayot and Férogio for the human figures), woodcuts in the text. Modern leather. Contominas 227, cf. Weber, I, 1147. Vues pittoresques des monuments d'Athènes Author: DU MONCEL, Théodose Achille Louis, vicomte. Title: Athènes monumentale et pittoresque. Publication info: Παρίσι, Gide et Cie, 1846.

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