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 bands bordered with gilt garlands and decorated with...
€3,500