![[LATOUR, Antoine de] and André Louis W.A. de SINETY (illustrator). Voyage de S.A.R. Monseigneur le Duc de Montpensier à Tunis, en Égypte, en Turquie et en Grèce. Paris: Arthus Bertrand [1847]. Atlas volume only, 2° (567 x 395mm). Lithographic title and 31 tinted lithographic plates after Sinety, heightened in white. (Plate stubs repaired, repair to title, spotting sometimes heavy, without notice to binder found in some copies.) Contemporary burgundy quarter roan, spine gilt in compartments and with black morocco labels (front blank repaired, discolouration from label removal on spine overlapping onto front board).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2013/CSK/2013_CSK_08952_0114_000(latour_antoine_de_and_andre_louis_wa_de_sinety_voyage_de_sar_monseigne074634).jpg?w=1)
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[LATOUR, Antoine de] and André Louis W.A. de SINETY (illustrator). Voyage de S.A.R. Monseigneur le Duc de Montpensier à Tunis, en Égypte, en Turquie et en Grèce. Paris: Arthus Bertrand [1847]. Atlas volume only, 2° (567 x 395mm). Lithographic title and 31 tinted lithographic plates after Sinety, heightened in white. (Plate stubs repaired, repair to title, spotting sometimes heavy, without notice to binder found in some copies.) Contemporary burgundy quarter roan, spine gilt in compartments and with black morocco labels (front blank repaired, discolouration from label removal on spine overlapping onto front board).
FIRST EDITION. Montpensier, fifth son of Louis Philippe, travelled on a diplomatic mission to Egypt and the Levant in 1848, accompanied by his tutor-secretary Antoine de Latour, who wrote the text volume. They sailed on board the 'Gomer' where Sinety served as lieutenant and naval artist to the mission. The plates include three views of Constantinople, four of Broussa, three of Cairo, two of Tunis, and others. Atabey 1138; Blackmer 952; Weber I, 400.
FIRST EDITION. Montpensier, fifth son of Louis Philippe, travelled on a diplomatic mission to Egypt and the Levant in 1848, accompanied by his tutor-secretary Antoine de Latour, who wrote the text volume. They sailed on board the 'Gomer' where Sinety served as lieutenant and naval artist to the mission. The plates include three views of Constantinople, four of Broussa, three of Cairo, two of Tunis, and others. Atabey 1138; Blackmer 952; Weber I, 400.