Lettres sur l'Orient, écrites pendant lez annéez 1827 et 1828. Atlas.

Folio: 2 ff.; 32 pl. (sl. spotting at edges & light damp stain at blank bottom margin of mounts, not on plates).

Contemp. quarter leather, covers with marbled paper over cardboard, gilt flat spine (rubbed, paper scratched, corners strengthened, head & tail def.). Plates very clean.

Atlas only of the first edition of this travel account through Turkey, the Greek Isles and esp. Egypt, by Baron Th.-M. Renouard de Bussière (Strasbourg 1802-1865), French diplomat and traveller. 32 fine lithogr. animated views of i.a. Constantinople, Bursa, Lesbos, Tenedos, the pyramids of Giza, temples of Karnak, Thebes, Elephantine, Nubia, Suez and the region of Mt. Sinai. Pl. lithogr. by i.a. Bichebois, Deroy, Sabatier, most with figures by V. Adam, all after original drawings by the author, printed by Engelmann on India paper (ca. 31 x 24 cm) and mounted. Each pl. protected by silky paper.
Ref. Atabey 177. - Blackmer cat. 946. - Not in Abbey, Navari (Greek civilization).