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Publicado por de l'Imprimerie Royale, Paris, 1819
Librería: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, Estados Unidos de America
hardcover. Condición: very good(+). First. Large copper engraved folding plan of Saint Sepulcre. Octavo, [12], 460pp. Contemporary tree calf, some scuffing barely visible. Decoratively gilt spine, red leather spine label, marbled edges. Rare text volume to accompany Forbin's illustrated atlas folio work on the Levant. Paris: de l'Imprimerie Royale, 1819. Near Fine. Forbin (1770 %u2013 1841) was Director of museums of France in 1816, a position that would allow him a year-long tour throughout the Levant, authorized to purchase antiquities for the Louvre, Forbin travelled to Greece, Constantinople, Acre, Jaffa, Bethlehem, Jericho, the Dead Sea, Jerusalem, Rama, Gaza, Cairo and Egypt.