LABORDE, Léon de (1807-1869)

LINANT de Bellefonds, Louis (1799-1883)
Voyage de l'Arabie Pétrée
Paris : Giard, 1830.

Large folio (672 x 50 mm). Ff. [iv] 1-44 [i]. Pp. [viii: half-title, note about the frontispiece, title-page with lithographic illustration on chine collee, author's dedication to William II of Holland, Preface] [1] 2-87: Introduction, description of the journey and notes on the plates, classification b Delile of the plants collected by the author [ii: List of the plates]. Illustrated with 69 full-page plates in total, of which the majority are lithographs on chine collee, and including one with additional hand-colouring (El Queber), plus a lithographic frontispiece and numerous wood-engraved illustrations throughout the text. Bound in contemporary full red morocco with double foliate gilt border, gilt decorated spine over six bands with gilt stamped title on green leather, gilt decorative border on inside covers, marbled paste-downs and gilt edges. Small repaired loss in upper front paste-down, and very small tear to the large folded map, which is trimmed at the bottom edge.

A very fine copy bound in contemporary full red morocco of the earliest in-depth visual study of Petra.

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