Grandes vues pittoresques des principaux sites et monuments de la Grèce et de la Sicile et des sept collines de Rome

by Louis-François Cassas

$24,000 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

Expertly bound to style in half blue morocco and marbled paper covered boards Very rare album of large-format views of Greece, Sicily and Rome. In 1784 Louis-François Cassas accompanied the Comte de Choiseul-Gauffier, French Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, on his travels to Constantinople. He travelled through the Middle East to Aleppo, Antioch, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Cyprus and Egypt and a pictorial account of his journey, Voyage pittoresque de la

• Binding: Leather

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