Lot 08014

BARON OTTO MAGNUS VON STACKELBERG, “La Grece. Vues Pittoresques et Topographiques”, Paris, chez I.F. DOstervald, 1834. Folio, (49 x 35 cm). The copy includes: half-title, title-page with lithographic vignette, 10 part-titles with lithographic vignettes and 97 of 111 lithographic plates of which 23 double-page and 74 single-page. All plates are printed on INDIA-PAPER and mounted.

This copy is missing all the printed text pages, the 4 part-titles, 4 double-page and 10 single-page plates.

Contemporary binding: leather spine with decorations in gilt, marbled thick carton covers and marbled edges. Ex-libris label in gilt on pastedown. Stamp neatly excised from verso of title. Mainly marginal spotting throughout, 6 plates with heavily browned. External rubbing along edges, joints and corners, bumped spot on lower part of front cover, short split on lower part of rear joint.  Blackmer 1593, Weber I 1122, Brunet V  503-504.