From the libraries of King Louis-Philippe and Baron James de Rothschild
LABORDE, Léon [Emmanuel Simon Joseph] de.
Voyage de l'Arabie Pétrée.
Paris, Giard, 1830. Imperial folio (42 x 59.6 cm). With a large lithographed title vignette and the coat of arms of Wilhelm II on the dedication leaf. 69 lithographed plates, maps, and plans after Laborde and Linant de Bellefonds, mostly mounted on India paper (including 3 folding and 2 coloured). Simier binding in gold-tooled half green morocco and marbled paper over boards, elaborately gold-tooled spine (and stamped in gold: "Simier R. du Roi"), marbled endpapers. [8], 87, [1] pp. Full description
€ 40,000
Paris, Giard, 1830. Imperial folio (42 x 59.6 cm). With a large lithographed title vignette and the coat of arms of Wilhelm II on the dedication leaf. 69 lithographed plates, maps, and plans after Laborde and Linant de Bellefonds, mostly mounted on India paper (including 3 folding and 2 coloured). Simier binding in gold-tooled half green morocco and marbled paper over boards, elaborately gold-tooled spine (and stamped in gold: "Simier R. du Roi"), marbled endpapers. [8], 87, [1] pp. Full description