Un palais grec en Macédoine. Etude sur l'architecture antique. Avec un plan restauré et un parallèle des ordres d'architecture, par H. Daumet, architecte

First edition with a folding plate at the end of the volume.

Spine and boards with losses, front cover starting to come loose, black stains to the upper cover.

At the express request of Napoleon III (who remains the dedicatee of the work despite the printing date), the archaeologist Léon Heuzey (1831-1922) undertook in 1861 his second archaeological mission to Macedonia (he had already carried out excavations there in 1855): the Emperor, then engaged in writing his Jules César, took a particular interest in the battlefields of his hero in the East (notably that of Pharsalus).

The mission took place in a difficult geopolitical context and had to be curtailed, but, beyond enriching the collections of the Louvre, it enabled the first excavations at Aigai (the first capital of Macedonia before Pella), and the drawings brought back by Daumet made a strong impression. 

Autograph inscription from Léon Heuzey to the Marquis Charles-Jean-Melchior de Vogüé (1829-1916), himself a diplomat and archaeologist.