MIDDLE EAST - LEVANT] FORBIN (Louis-Nicolas Philippe Auguste - Lot 10

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MIDDLE EAST - LEVANT] FORBIN (Louis-Nicolas Philippe Auguste - Lot 10
MIDDLE EAST - LEVANT] FORBIN (Louis-Nicolas Philippe Auguste, Comte de). Atlas of the Journey in the Levant in 1817 and 1818. ATLAS in-plano. Atlas: 80 lithographed plates (78 numbered, and 2 more plates at the end of the volume) by Engelmann, Baltard, Bourgeois, Fragonard, Lecomte, Vernet after Forbin, Vernet, Isabey, Debucourt. Paris Imprimerie Royale 1819. Very poor condition for the first plates (stains, tears, lacks...), then quite white paper with some stains or soiling in places, marginal tear, pl. 9 torn, as is. Rare however. This atlas in-folio (which goes together with the original edition of Forbin's Voyage dans le Levant) was printed in only 325 copies. Count FORBIN (1777-1841) painter and archaeologist, student of David, he was appointed by Louis XVIII, director of the Louvre Museum. He undertook this trip to Greece, Asia Minor, Palestine and Egypt in 1817 and 1818, on the frigate Cleopatra of the Levant squadron. His mission was to buy antiquities for the Louvre.
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