Lot 03205

D’Homere: Exploration artistique et archéologique”, L’ami 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 Schliemann’s 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 In the current prized publication, he presented unpublished / unrecorded photographs of Troy‘s antiquities along with a comprehensive bibliography of all the pro-Schliemann’s archaeological efforts on Troy. Rare.