Forbin, Louis N. P. A. de, comte Voyage dans le Levant, en 1817 et 1818 [with Atlas]. Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1819 3 volumes, including two copies of text in 8vo (7 3/4 x 4 7/8 in.; 196 x 125 mm), 1 volume atlas in folio (26 7/8 x 20 1/2 in.; 684 x 520 mm). Half-title in text volumes, folding-plan of St. Sepulchre in Jerusalem, 80 plates in atlas volume including 2 plans, 70 hand-colored lithographs by Baltard, Bourgeois, Fragonard, Lecomte, Vernet and others after Forbin, Vernet, Isabey and Fragonard, and 8 hand-colored aquatints by Debucourt; some marginal soiling and spotting, blank lower outer corner of one plate torn. The inscribed text volume uncut in original wrapper; worn, edges frayed. The other text volume in 19th-century quarter sheep with vellum corners and marbled boards, spine gilt; extremities rubbed. Atlas volume in contemporary red straight-grain morocco, double-fillet border with a roll-tool of alternating angel and caduceus with the occasional eagle, central frame of gilt-tooled flowers, a central medallion with three lily stamps framed by stylized leaves, dentelles, edges gilt; rebacked with original spine laid down, edges rubbed, corners mended.
Forbin, Louis N. P. A. de, comte Voyage dans le Levant, en 1817 et 1818 [with Atlas]. Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1819 3 volumes, including two copies of text in 8vo (7 3/4 x 4 7/8 in.; 196 x 125 mm), 1 volume atlas in folio (26 7/8 x 20 1/2 in.; 684 x 520 mm). Half-title in text volumes, folding-plan of St. Sepulchre in Jerusalem, 80 plates in atlas volume including 2 plans, 70 hand-colored lithographs by Baltard, Bourgeois, Fragonard, Lecomte, Vernet and others after Forbin, Vernet, Isabey and Fragonard, and 8 hand-colored aquatints by Debucourt; some marginal soiling and spotting, blank lower outer corner of one plate torn. The inscribed text volume uncut in original wrapper; worn, edges frayed. The other text volume in 19th-century quarter sheep with vellum corners and marbled boards, spine gilt; extremities rubbed. Atlas volume in contemporary red straight-grain morocco, double-fillet border with a roll-tool of alternating angel and caduceus with the occasional eagle, central frame of gilt-tooled flowers, a central medallion with three lily stamps framed by stylized leaves, dentelles, edges gilt; rebacked with original spine laid down, edges rubbed, corners mended.
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