CERVINI (Joseph-Antoine de Macerata) and MELLING (Antoine-Ignace). Voyage pittoresque dans les Pyrénées françaises et dans les départements adjacents, ou collection de 72 gravures représentant les sites, les monuments et les établissements les plus remarquables du Pays Basque, de la Navarre, du Béarn, du Bigorre, des Comtés de Comminges et de Foix, et du Roussillon. Paris, Treuttel & Wurtz and by the author, 1826-1830. Broadside, leaves. First edition, illustrated with a frontispiece portrait and 72 hors-texte plates engraved after Melling by Piringer and Salathé (uncoloured). The work appeared in 12 issues, each containing 6 plates. A very important album covering the whole of the French Pyrenees. Rare and much sought-after. The original hardback (enclosed) is very damaged. Freckles, often heavy. The album is complete with text and all plates. Ignace Antoine Melling (Karlsruhe 1763 - Paris 1831) was a French architect, painter, engraver and traveller of Lorraine origin. He was a pupil of his uncle Joseph Melling in Strasbourg. He was the architect to the Sultan of Oman Selim III from 1795 to 1803, and later the landscape painter to Empress Josephine. He exhibited at the Salon from 1804 to 1824. In 1809, he set up an engraving workshop to reproduce his drawings. In 1821, the French government sent him to the Pyrenees to demonstrate that their natural beauty could rival that of the Alps. Labarère 1035 - Dendaletche 1268