FORBIN (Auguste de). Voyage dans le Levant. Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1819; in-8 (196 x 125 mm), chalky glazed basane, smooth spine decorated with gilt fleurons (period binding). Painter and antiquarian, Director General of the Royal Museums (including the Louvre), Forbin spent two years in the Levant, visiting Milos, Constantinople, Ephesus, Saint-Jean-d'Acre, Jerusalem, Thebes, Luxor, Alexandria, etc. and acquired antiquities for 28,000 francs to enrich his museums. Plan of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. A very fine copy.