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CHENAVARD (ANTOINE-MARIE) Voyage en Grece et dans le Levant fait en MDCCCXLII et MDCCCXLIV, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, Lyon, Louis Perrin, 1858 image 2
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CHENAVARD (ANTOINE-MARIE)
Voyage en Grece et dans le Levant fait en MDCCCXLII et MDCCCXLIV, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, Lyon, Louis Perrin, 1858

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CHENAVARD (ANTOINE-MARIE)

Voyage en Grece et dans le Levant fait en MDCCCXLII et MDCCCXLIV, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on half-title to M. Orsel ainé ("hommage de reconnaissance offert par l'auteur A. Chenavard"), 79 engraved plates, maps, plans and views after Chenavard and Etienne Rey (as called for in the list of plates, but without 2 bis plates sometimes found), contemporary cloth-backed boards, upper hinge cracked, modern blue morocco-backed solander box [Atabey 230; Blackmer 334; Brunet II, 1831; Weber I 379], folio (492 x 310mm.), Lyon, Louis Perrin, 1858

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Presentation copy of Antoine-Marie Chenavard's account of the voyage he undertook with the painter Etienne Rey to Greece during 1843-44. An architect and archaeologist, Chenevard (1787-1883) was particularly interested in the ancient buildings, the plates including views of Athens, Delphi and Ithaca. According to Brunet only 200 copies were printed.

Provenance: M. Orsel ainé, presentation inscription from the author; Sefik A. Atabey, bookplate.

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