Lot 08114

ROTTIERS Bernard Eugene Antoine Colonel, “Monumens de Rhodes“, Brussels, Tence Frères, 1828. FIRST EDITION. COMPLETE including the text Volume in 8vo and the ATLAS Volume in oblong Folio (46.5×32.5 cm).

Text volume with half-title but not the portrait, Atlas with lithographed title, list of plates, 75 plates (8 hand-coloured).

Bernard Rottiers (1771-1857) was a Flemish army official. In 1824 Rottiers acquired funding from the Ministery of Interior of his country to organize a two-year expedition in Greece in order to collect antiquities for the National Museum of Leiden. The project could not be realized due to the ongoing Greek Revolution and thus Rottiers changed destination and stayed in Rhodes for six months. He worked on an edition which describes and depicts the medieval monuments of the islands, and devoted little effort to the collection of antiquities. To date, the present edition remains an invaluable source for the study of Rhodes medieval monuments (Vingopoulou, wwwtravelogues.gr).

Several plates with some spotting, some spotting and browning to text. Modern cloth, preserving printed title label to upper cover of Atlas, and sides of text volume.

Blackmer 1450, Atabey 1056, Contominas 624.