Épidaure. Restauration & description des principaux monuments du sanctuaire d'Asclépios. Relevés et restaurations par Alphonse Defrasse

First edition, printed in 500 numbered copies, of this splendid archaeological album featuring 78 in-text illustrations and 13 full-page plates with tissue guards (including 7 double-page or folding plates).

Text by Henri Lechat.

Publisher’s Bradel binding in full forest green cloth, smooth spine, headcaps slightly crushed, one joint split at head, spine and boards ruled in ochre, corners slightly rubbed, bookplate affixed to the front pastedown.

Copy from the library of industrialist Anatole Descamps (1833–1907), with engraved ex-libris by Devambez mounted on the pastedown.

A handsome copy.

The only edition of this superb archaeological album.

As a fellow of the French Academy in Rome, Alexandre-Alphonse Defrasse (1860–1939) stayed in Greece, where he carried out surveys and restorations of the theatre of Epidaurus, forming the project of his third year submission.