Guide Rose D'Air France - Grèce -

With a preface by Théophile Homolle. Translated from the French by Charles Frederic Hardy. First english language edition. 132 pp.+ 40 full-page photogravure plates with printed tissue guards and 86 illustrations in the text. 39x31 cm. Éditions d'Art Fred. Boissonnas, Genève, 1920. There are printed of this work on fine hand-made paper, prepared specially for this edition, 300 copies, of which this copy is No. 15. (Additional postage due to heavy weight) --- François Frédéric Boissonnas, nicknamed Fred (1858-1946) came from a Swiss family of photographers. An enthusiastic trekker, he started out on his journey from Geneve together with his inseparable friend and travel companion, Greek scholar Daniel Baud-Bovy, rector in the Geneva school of Fine Arts. From their first journey in 1903 until 1920, carrying a baggage of stereotypes on Greece passed on by travellers of the previous centuries, they toured and took photographs everywhere, from Epirus to the Peloponnese and from Ithaca to Olympus and… Read More

Mit 21 karten, 84 plänen u. grundrissen und 55 abbildungen. Siebente auflage. cxc+438 pp. 16x11 cm. Verlag von Karl Baedeker, Leipzig, 1913. The last edition before World War I, when Egypt was still part of the Ottoman Empire. --- Text in german. Clothbound (publishers cloth) with gilt letters on front cover and spine. All edges marbled, pages clean and bright, colored folding maps h.t. Light wear.

From the earliest time down to the present day. With an introduction by J. L. Myres and maps and illustrations. xxv+438 pp. + black & white photos + folding maps and photographs h.t. 23x15 cm. Macmillan and Co., Limited, London, 1922.
--- Cloth-bound (publishers cloth) with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Wear and spots on covers and spine (see photos). Tight binding. Top edges gilt. Fore-ege and bottom edge untrimmed. Pages bright and clean. Unmarked.

The Boy Travellers in the Far East - Part fifth. Illustrated. 473 pp.+1 colour plate h.t. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1884.
--- Pictorial cloth gilt. Some wear at corners and spine ends (see photos). Pages bright and clean. A dedication written on a blank page. Richly illustrated with engravings. Tight binding.

Compris La Chartreuse près de Pavie et escursions de cette capitale aux lacs de Como, de Lugano, au lac Majeur et à Varèse, exposées à l'usage des voyageurs... 264+viii pp.+1 plan, 1 carte et 1 gravure h.t. 14,5x10 cm. Chez Epimaque et Pascal Artaria, s.d. (1830-1840)
--- Three-quarter leather + marbled covers.Wear at corners and spine ends. Very tight binding. Name written on title page and frontispiece. All other pages, including the folding map, the folding plan and the folding engraving, are bright and clean.

From the earliest time down to the present day. With an introduction by J. L. Myres and maps and illustrations. xxv+438 pp. + black & white photos + folding maps and photographs h.t. 23x15 cm. Macmillan and Co., Limited, London, 1922.
--- Cloth-bound (publishers cloth) with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Wear and spots on covers and spine (see photos). Tight binding. Top edges gilt. Fore-ege and bottom edge untrimmed. Pages bright and clean. Unmarked.

L'Univers - Histoire et description de tous les peuples. iv+644 pp.+ 31 gravures h.t. (4 cartes et 27 gravures). 21,9x13,6 cm. Librairie de Firmin-Didot et Cie, Paris, 1881.
--- Text in french. Cloth-bound. Some wear to the edges of the spine. Some pages are being repaired with tape. Written name on first blank page. No missing pages, text is clean. Folding map of Greece and engravings in very good condition, without foxing.
--- "J'ai réuni dans ce volume, sous le nom d'Iles de la Grèce, toutes les îles de la Méditerrannée orientale, depuis Chypre jusqu'à Corfou, de l'est à l'ouest, et depuis les îles des Princes jusqu'à celle de Candie, dans la direction du nord au sud (...)"

The Boy Travellers in the Far East - Part fifth. Illustrated. 473 pp.+1 colour plate h.t. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1884.
--- Pictorial cloth gilt. Some wear at corners and spine ends (see photos). Pages bright and clean. A dedication written on a blank page. Richly illustrated with engravings. Tight binding.

Compris La Chartreuse près de Pavie et escursions de cette capitale aux lacs de Como, de Lugano, au lac Majeur et à Varèse, exposées à l'usage des voyageurs... 264+viii pp.+1 plan, 1 carte et 1 gravure h.t. 14,5x10 cm. Chez Epimaque et Pascal Artaria, s.d. (1830-1840)
--- Three-quarter leather + marbled covers.Wear at corners and spine ends. Very tight binding. Name written on title page and frontispiece. All other pages, including the folding map, the folding plan and the folding engraving, are bright and clean.

D' après des documents inédits. Tome premier: xviii+276 pp. Tome second: 392 pp. 25,2x16,5 cm. Chez Jules Renouard et Cie, Libraires, Paris, 1854.
Mixtes techniques d'illustration. Un des premiers livres illustrés par la photographie, contenant deux calotypes sur papier fin monté. Il contient 7 pp. de fac-similé reproduisant une description d'Athènes par un anonyme vers 1460 + 24 gravures h.t. et quelques dans le texte, sur bois, cuivre ou lithographiées, dont plusieurs repliées, avec une eau-forte originale de Ch. Méryon représentant le couvent des Capucines à Athènes, spécialement gravée pour cet ouvrage.
--- Half-leather (private binding, morocco leather), marbled endpapers. Light edgewear. Occasianal foxing. Tight binding, original paper covers are included. Pages clean of underlinings or notes. Very impressive engravings, a rare edition. (More photos are available)
--- Simon Joseph Léon Emmanuel, Marquis de Laborde (1807-1869) was a French archaeologist and politician. At the… Read More