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Description de l'Asie Mineure faite par ordre du Governement François de 1833 a 1837. 3 volumes (complete set)

TEXIER Charles Félix Marie

Item #M9406

Extremely rare complete set of 3 volumes. Firmin Didot Frères, Paris, 1839-1849. First edition. Elephant folio (55 x 35 cm.) Half-title, title + pp.xvi, 238 (skipping pages 208-209, as issued); half-title, title, pp.332; half-title, title, pp.268. Recent quarter brown calf over black cloth boards, spines gilt lettered. Ex-library, with perforated stamps on title pages, ink stamps on a preliminary leaf in volume 1, half title of volume 2, first part title in volume 3, perforated stamp at bottom right of each plate - touching the image or body of most plates. Attractive binding on the shelf. With large lithographic general map on 4 sheets and 254 plates. Complete as listed with 254 plates (numbered 1-241, plus 13 "bis" plates - including one not listed in Contents- of which the vast majority are b&w engravings but also include 7 tinted lithographs, 4 chromolithographs, including one d page, and one hand-coloured plate. Includes 5 double-page plates listed as 2 plates). Vol. 1 plates numbered 1-83, Vol.2, 84-141, Vol 3, 142-2418. Texier, after training as an archaeologist, made three journeys to the Levant between 1834 and 1836, returning to France the following year and beginning the present work: a summation of the information garnered about ancient art, architecture and town planning. Texier returned to Asia Minor in 1839 and in 1842 he was entrusted with collecting and removing to France the marbles from the temple of Artemis Leukophryene at Magnesia which are now in the Louvre. ".probably the greatest work of exploration made by a single traveller" (Navari). (Brunet III. 768-769; Blackmer, 1645). Literature: Atabey 1211; Blackmer 1645; Weber I 304 Language: French. Relevant subjects: Anatolia, Greece & Aegean.

Language: French.

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