Auguste de FORBIN

Auguste de FORBIN

Born19 août 1777
Died23 février 1841
LanguageFrench
NationalityFrance
Lieu de naissance La Roque-d'Anthéron (Bouches-du-Rhône). Lieu de décès Paris (France)
Écrivain, librettiste, archéologue. - Peintre et graveur (eau-forte)
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  • FORBIN Citoyen
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FORBIN, Auguste de
  1. Souvenirs de la Sicile
    Auguste de FORBIN

    Souvenirs de la Sicile[Memories of Sicily]

    Imprimerie Royale (1815-1848))|Paris 1823|14.7 x 21.6 cm|Relié

    First edition of this short work intended as a supplement to the Voyage dans le Levant by the same author: Auguste de Forbin (1777–1841) indeed undertook this journey in 1820, one year after returning from his extensive expedition to the Middle East, officially carried out in his capacity as Director of the Royal Museums.

    Contemporary half caramel sheep, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets and garlands and blind-stamped ornaments, gilt rolls at head and foot of spine, joints slightly split at head and foot, blind-stamped palmette decorations to marbled paper boards, endpapers and pastedowns of vat paper, marbled edges.

    Our copy is complete with its engraved...

    €580
  2. Souvenirs de la Sicile
    Auguste de FORBIN

    Souvenirs de la Sicile

    De l' Imprimerie Royale|Paris 1823|14.50 x 23 cm|relié
    The rare first edition of this journey to Sicily by the Count de Forbin. One frontispiece, ruins of the theater of Taormina, drawn by the Count de Forbin, and 2 plates of music of a Sicilian arietta, as well as 2 figures of coins.
    Contemporary full green morocco binding. Cathedral-style spine with raised bands, decorated with gilt and blind monastic tools in panels. Green morocco title label. Covers with rich blind border featuring various friezes, stamped in blind with a central monastic tool. Tools on the edges and turn-ins. Blind-stamped leather borders. Gilt edges. Yellow checkered endpapers. Scattered foxing. At foot: R. P. Decle.
    Very handsome copy in an original binding.
    €850
  3. Voyage dans le Levant en 1817 et 1818 par M. le C.te de Forbin
    Auguste de FORBIN

    Voyage dans le Levant en 1817 et 1818 par M. le C.te de Forbin

    Delaunay|1819|12 x 20 cm|relié
    Second edition published the same year as the first, by the same publisher. Large folding plan of the Holy Sepulchre at rear. The large and famous atlas, published in only 325 copies and sold separately, is absent. At rear explanation of the 78 lithographed plates in colors that compose the atlas.
    Contemporary full brown sheep binding with porphyry grain. Smooth spine decorated with 4 compartments with grotesque cross-hatching and a central ornament. Framing frieze on boards. Chocolate morocco title-label. Spine uniformly faded. Small lacks to joints at head. A slight lack at foot. Upper joint split narrowly at tail for 8 cm, and for 5cm along the lower joint. Trace of pale dampstain on...
    €500
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