Voyage pittoresque de la Grèce.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Choiseul-Gouffier, Marie-Gabriel-Auguste-Florent, comte de, 1752-1817.

Contributor:

Barbié du Bocage, Jean Denis, 1760-1825.

Letronne, M. (Antoine-Jean), 1787-1848.

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Greece--Description and travel.

Greece.

Greece--Antiquities.

Antiquities.

Turkey--Description and travel.

Turkey.

Genre:

Advertisements -- France -- Paris -- 19th century.

Penn Provenance:

Bates, Robert H. (donor)

Psycharē, A. (bookplate)

Physical Description:

2 volumes : illustrations (engravings), genealogical table, maps, plans, portrait ; 51 cm

Place of Publication:

Paris : [publisher not identified], 1782-1822.

Notes:

Engraved title pages; title vignettes.

Vol. 1 appears in several tirages--cf. Brunet, I, columns 1847 and 1848.

Vol. 2, issued in 4 "livraisons" (cf. Bibl. de la France), is in 2 parts, paged continuously (518 p., 157 numbered ill.) Imprint [pt. 1] : Paris, 1809; pt. 2: Paris, J.J. Blaise Libraire, 1822. Some sources report a final publication date for v. 2, pt. 2 as 1824.

After Choiseul's death, MM. Barbié du Bocage and Letronne completed and edited the work. Cf. Avertissement du libraire-éditeur, v. 2, pt. 2.

Includes index.

Notices on Choiseul's life and works: v.2, pt. 2, p. i-[x], preceded by port. frontispiece.

Booksellers' advertisements on versos of half-titles in v. 2, pts. 1 & 2.

Local Notes:

On verso of half-title of Library's copy 1 of v. 2 [pt. 1]: Se vend à Paris chez Tilliard, graveur [etc.]

Museum Library's copy bound in 3 vols.

Museum Library's copy misbound: the portrait of the author from v. 2, pt. 2 is bound at the beginning of v. 1; the "Avertissement du libraire-éditeur" from v. 2, pt. 2 is bound after the t.p. of v. 1; p. [I]-XII of v. 2, pt. 2 are bound at end of volume.

OCLC:

2356486