Collection
ROQUE, Phocion. Athènes d’après le Colonel Leake Ouvrage mis au courant des découvertes les plus récentes... Introduction de M.C. Wescher. Dessins de L. Breton, d’après des photographies. Deuxième édition. Paris: E. Plon, 1876.
Second edition, first printed in 1869 as Topographie d'Athènes, with an introduction by Carl Wescher. The work describes the Athenian monuments during the excavations which had begun soon after the foundation of the Greek state. According to Thouvenel, Roque came from a French-Greek family which had settled in Athens. He was a functionary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and served as secretary to the French Embassy in London and Paris. He died in 1870.
Format:
19 cm
Page description:
8vo, pp. [iv] XX, I-III, [5]-336 (p.[i]=ht, pp.335-6=conts). With eight plates and a folding plan. Uncut in quarter calf, the original blue printed paper wrappers bound in.
Entity:
Travel Literature
Item Type:
Book
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