From Georgia to Varna, from the Crimea to Turkey |
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Title A voyage in the Black Sea, the Bosphorus, the Sea of Marmora & the Dardanelles. |
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Published, Date Colnaghi, London,[ca. 1855]. |
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Description Large folio (56.5 x 41 cm), title in French and English from original blue upper wrapper bound-in, 24 plates lithographed by Sabatier, E. Cicéri, P. Benoist after Durand-Brager; bound without lithograph title and list of plates, no other letterpress issued. Modern half calf preserving old red boards, upper cover lettered in gilt. |
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Note A fine, clean copy of the first edition of this rare rich visual record of the Black Sea. Durand-Brager (1814-79) combined a naval career with that of marine artist. This folio resulted from his work while attached to the Black Sea expedition of the Cacique and Sampson under Vice-Admiral Hamelin during the Crimean War. Durand-Brager was war correspondent to several French papers and journals during the campaign, and painted a series of twenty pictures to form a panorama of the attack on Sebastopol now in the museum at Versailles. The plates are: Gallipoli; Trebizonde; Varna; Sebastopol; Kaffa; Soukoum-Kaleh; Batoum; Bourgaz; Schousgab; Platana; Redout-Kaleh; Sulina; Touaps; Anapa; Sotcha; Khelindijk; Kavarna; Feu d'Europe; Odessa; Baltchick; Therapia; Sinope; Dardanelles ou Kilid-Bas; Feu d'Asie. |
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References Atabey 383; Blackmer 520; not in Abbey, Travel. |
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Stock Number 84325 |
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