NORMAND Charles Nicolas, "La Troie

DHomere: Exploration artistique et archéologique", Lami des monuments et des arts, 1892. First & only edition. Numbered copy (No.129), especially printed for the library of Dr Coutan with signature of the author. Folio, loose sheets in special case with engraved front cover, pp.116. Engraved title-page, 20 full-page engravings / photographs and several other plans & sketches & photographs in text. Although Charles Normand did not agree with Schliemanns archaeological approaches on Troy excavation, he participated in the excavations as an expert architect and photographer. In the current prized publication, he presented unpublished / unrecorded photographs of Troys antiquities along with a comprehensive bibliography of all the pro-Schliemanns archaeological efforts on Troy. Rare.