First edition, with the half-title, an engraved title page with large lithographed vignette, 69 lithographed plates, maps and plans (one hand-coloured, 4 double-page or folding, and many on india paper and mounted), and a number of wood-engravings in the text. Large folio. Contemporary full red morocco, elaborately gilt, the spine with raised bands ruled in gilt and with highly decorated compartments, inner gilt dentelles, marbled end papers, the plates retaining their protective guards, some light foxing in the preliminary pages, and occasional foxing throughout and on the plates, but this not heavy, and an attractive copy. [4], 87 [text including an explanation of the plates] pp. Paris, Giard, 1830.
The plates, many lithographed by Victor Adam, were taken mainly from drawings by Laborde and Linant de Bellefonds, the French engineer who accompanied the marquis Léon Emmanuel Simon Joseph de Laborde on this journey to Petra, which furnished the world with the first detailed images of the famous monuments. The quality of the cartography is also very high, and there are splendid views and panoramas of the scenes en route. The English edition describing the journey was published by John Murray in London in 1836.
Blackmer, 929.
