Bernard Eugène Antoine ROTTIERS
Description des monumens de Rhodes, dédiée à Sa Majesté le Roi des Pays-Bas.[Description of the Monuments of Rhodes, Dedicated to His Majesty the King of the Netherlands]
Imprimerie de Tencé frères|Brussels 1828|19 x 25.5 cm & 49,5x34|2 volumes reliés
First edition, in its first issue with the imprint of the Imprimerie de Tencé frères, Brussels, 1828. The text volume is illustrated with a portrait of Bernard Eugène Antoine Rottiers, lithographed by J. Van Genk after Sir Thomas Lawrence; the atlas contains an engraved map, numbered 1, and 74 lithographic plates numbered 2 to 75, plate 27 being mistakenly numbered 17. Eight plates are hand-coloured: nos. 28, 41, and 61 to 66. The text volume was reissued in 1830 under a new imprint; the present issue is the true first publication of the work.
The text volume is bound in contemporary half dark green morocco, the spine with four raised...
€3,500