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(Latour, A. de &) A. L. W. A. de Sinety. Voyage de S. A. R. Monseigneur le Duc de Montpensier á Tunis, en Égypte, en Turquie et en Grèce. (Nur Tafelbd.) Paris, A. Bertrand, (1847). Gr.-fol. (56:39 cm). Lith. getönter Titel u. 31 lith getönte Tafeln von Bayot, Dauzats u.a. nach Sinety. Hldr. d. Zt. mit goldgepr. Rtit., leicht berieben u. fleckig. Blackmer 952; Atabey 1138; Hage Chahine 2668; Ibrahim-Hilmy I, 358. - Erste Ausgabe dieser prachtvollen Publikation. "Montpensier, fifth son of Louis Philippe, travelled in Egypt and the Levant in 1845, accompanied by his tutor Antoine de Latour, who produced an account of their voyage" (Atabey). - Sorgfältig gereinigt, 1 Taf. (Derwische) mit gr. blauem Fleck neben dem Bild u. winzigem Randeinriss, 2 weitere Taf. (Rue des Tombeaux; Taygetos-Gebirge) mit kl. leichtem Blaufleck im w. Rand bzw. im Bildrand. First edition, atlas volume only. With tinted lithographic title and 31 tinted lithographic plates after drawings by Sinety. "His plates include views of Constantinople, Egypt, North Africa and Greece. Over one-third of the plates are views of Greece and include Corinth, Messenia, Sparta, Cryssa, Mistra, the Castalian Spring, Mt. Ithome, Sunium, Taygetus" (Blackmer). - Carefully cleaned, 1 plate (dervishes) with large blue stain beside image and tiny marginal tear, 2 further plates with small blue spot to margin resp. margin of image. Text vol. not present here. Bound in contemporary calf-backed boards, slightly stained and rubbed.