Lot 06006

“La Troie D’Homere: Exploration artistique et archéologique”, L’ami des monuments et des arts, 1892. First & only edition. Numbered copy (No.201) with signature and dedication by the author to the French sculptor Guillaume Eugene Jean-Baptiste Claude. 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 In the current prized publication, he presented unpublished / unrecorded photographs of Troy’s antiquities along with a comprehensive bibliography of all the pro-Schliemann’s archaeological efforts on Troy.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.