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, illustrated with a portrait of the author after Sir Thomas Lawrence in the text volume, and, in the atlas volume, with 1 engraved map (numbered 1) and 74 lithographed plates (numbered 2 to 75; plate 27 misnumbered 17), including 8 hand-coloured plates: plates 28 (Fresco of Dieudonné de Gozon), 41 (Tomb of Fabrice Caretti), and 61 to 66 (Frescoes from the crypts of Our Lady of Philerme).
See Atabey 1056. Blackmer 1450. Loukia Droulia 1474. Weber, I, 163.
Text volume bound in contemporary green half shagreen, spine with four raised bands adorned with gilt garlands and floral tools, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers, rubbed corners; atlas volume in contempora
€3,500