Voyage en Grèce et dans le Levant fait en MDCCCXLIII et MDCCCXLIV

First edition illustrated with 81 engraved plates, drawn by Antoine-Marie Chenavard and engraved on steel by various artists, comprising: a route map, a plan of Athens, and 79 plates numbered I to LXXV, including plates XXVIIIbis, XLVIIIbis (these two not listed in the table), LVIbis, and LVIIbis.

Cf. Blackmer 334. Atabey 230. Brunet II, 1831.

Each plate is accompanied by a leaf of explanatory text.

Plates LIX and LX are transposed in this copy.

Bound in modern half green sheep with corners, spine with four raised bands decorated with black fillets, black sheep lettering-piece and author’s name, sides covered in almond-green felted paper, a scratch to the lower cover.

The leaves are mounted on cloth guards, the preliminary leaves with some marginal soiling, a few light dampstains in the margins of certain pages, all leaves with marginal sunning.

"First and only Edition. Brunet states that only 200 copies were printed. Chenavard had intended to produce this work in parts of 40 livraisons with 4 plates in each (see advert. at end of 1846 Relation), which would result in 160 plates. Half the number actually appeared, after drawings by Chenavard and Rey both (…) The Voyage en Grèce, 1858, is sometimes referred to as the 'atlas' to the second Édition of the Relation which apppeared in 1849 under a similar title. It is in fact an independent publication which contains a summary account of the journey made by Chenavard, Rey and Dalgabio in 1843-4, and is of great importance for the many views it contains of Athens (27), Delphi and Ithaca. A few plates of Egypt also are included" [Leonora Navari].