Main entry:

Choiseul-Gouffier, Marie-Gabriel-Auguste-Florent, comte de, 1752-1817.

Title & Author:

Voyage pittoresque de la Grèce.

Publication:

Paris, 1782-[1824]

Description:

v. front. (v.2, port.) plates, maps (part fold.) plans, fold. geneal. tab. 50x33cm.

Notes:
After Choiseul's death, MM. Barbié du Bocage and Letronne completed and edited the work. cf. Avertissement du libraire-éditeur.
Engraved title-pages; title vignettes.
Notices on Choiseul's life and works: v.2, ix, [1]p.
On verso of half-title, v.2 [pt.1]: Se vend à Paris chez Tilliard, graveur [etc.].
Vol. 1: [Ier tirage] cf. Brunet, Manuel du libraire.
Vol. 2, issued in 4 "livraisons" (cf. Bibl. de la France) is in 2 parts, paged continuously. Imprint [pt.1] : Paris, 1809; pt. 2: Paris, J.J. Blaise, 1822.
Engraved title pages for v. 1; v. 2, pt. 1; v. 2, pt. 2.
Vol. 1 appears in 3 issues ("tirages")--cf. Brunet, t. I, col. 1847-1848.
Vol. 2, issued in 4 "livraisons" (cf. Bibl. de la France), is in 2 parts, paged continuously (518 p., 157 numbered ill.).
Imprint for v. 2, pt. 1: A Paris, M.DCCC.IX [1809].
Imprint for v. 2, pt. 2: A Paris : J.J. Blaise Libraire, M.DCCC.XXII [1822]. Some sources report a final publication date for v. 2, pt. 2 as 1824.
Author: Marie-Gabriel-Auguste-Florent Choiseul-Gouffier. After the death of Choiseul-Gouffier, v. 2 of the work was completed by Jean Denis Barbié de Bocage and Antoine-Jean Letronne--Cf. Avertissement du libraire-éditeur in v. 2, pt. 2.
"Notice sur la vie et les ouvrages de M. le comte de Choiseul-Gouffier par M. Dacier": v. 2, pt. 2, p. [i]-vi.
Plates: v. 1: 2 unnumbered double-leaf maps, 126 numbered plates printed on 100 leaves; v. 2: port. of the comte de Choiseul-Gouffier engraved by M.F. Dien after a design by Boilly, geneal. table printed on 2 leaves, 157 numbered plates, including plates 8 bis and 76 bis, printed on 76 leaves.
Includes index.
Library copy: v. 1: 2nd issue: [6], xii, 204 p., [104] leaves of plates. Plate [125] misnumbered "126".
Library copy: v. 2, pt. 1: inserted half title has imprint on verso: "A Paris ... Chez J.-J. Blaise", and printer statement: "De l'Imprimerie de Leblanc, rue Furstemberg, no 8".
Library copy: bound as 3 v.

Subject:

Antiquities.
Travel.
Greece Antiquities.
Greece Description and travel.
Grèce Antiquités.
Grèce Descriptions et voyages.
Greece.
Turkey Description and travel

Form/genre:

Advertisements France Paris 19th century.

Added entries:

Barbié du Bocage, Jean Denis, 1760-1825
Letronne, M. (Antoine-Jean), 1787-1848
Dacier, Bon-Joseph, 1742-1833

Holdings:

Location: Library main m 65807
Call No.: ID:85-B9285
Copy: v. 1
Status: Available

Location: Library main m 65806
Call No.: ID:85-B9285
Copy: v. 2, pt. 1
Status: Available

Location: Library main m 65805
Call No.: ID:85-B9285
Copy: v. 2, pt. 2
Status: Available