Lot no. 65
[VIEWS OF GREECE]. Ελλας. S.l.n.d. [Athens, ca. 1850]. Small oblong in-4, brown half-chagrin with corners, title-piece "ΕΛΛΑΣ" on first board, smooth mute spine (Period binding). Album of views of landscapes and monuments of Athens comprising 10 engraved plates, 17 small lithographs laminated on 5 ff., and 2 folded plans of Athens. The small lithographs, very interesting, certainly come from a 19th century Greek periodical.
Spellbinding; foxing; one map torn and repaired.
Also included: DU MONCEL (Théodose). Nauplie (Greece). [Paris, 1845]. Lithograph finely watercoloured and gummed (63 x 46 cm), in sheet form, canvas-backed. Very fine view of Nafplio drawn and lithographed by Du Moncel, taken from the work De Venise à Constantinople à travers la Grèce (pl. 15); cardboard heavily scorched.
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