Lot 205
Middle East.- Coste (Pascal) Monuments Modernes de la Perse, first edition, Paris, 1867.
Hammer Price: £9,000
Description
Middle East.- Coste (Pascal) Monuments Modernes de la Perse, first edition, half-title, title in red and black, 56 plates by Muguet, Hymaly, Sauvageot, Bachelier and others after Coste, numbered I-LXXI, 7 double-page, 8 chromolithographed, illustrations in text, some foxing, contemporary half morocco, rubbed, extremities worn, folio, Paris, 1867.
⁂ "Probably the single most attractive book on Persia and one of the rarest" (Ghani).
Coste (1787-1879) was appointed architect to Mehmet Ali in 1818. He spent 10 years in Egypt, completing, among other projects, the reconstruction of the defences at Abukir. This work, together with Voyage en Perse (1842) and Monuments anciens de la Perse (1844), grew out of the French diplomatic mission to Persia in 1839-1841, on which he was accompanied by Biberstein Kazimirski.
Description
Middle East.- Coste (Pascal) Monuments Modernes de la Perse, first edition, half-title, title in red and black, 56 plates by Muguet, Hymaly, Sauvageot, Bachelier and others after Coste, numbered I-LXXI, 7 double-page, 8 chromolithographed, illustrations in text, some foxing, contemporary half morocco, rubbed, extremities worn, folio, Paris, 1867.
⁂ "Probably the single most attractive book on Persia and one of the rarest" (Ghani).
Coste (1787-1879) was appointed architect to Mehmet Ali in 1818. He spent 10 years in Egypt, completing, among other projects, the reconstruction of the defences at Abukir. This work, together with Voyage en Perse (1842) and Monuments anciens de la Perse (1844), grew out of the French diplomatic mission to Persia in 1839-1841, on which he was accompanied by Biberstein Kazimirski.
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