[Athens]. - Lot 7

[Athens]. PICARD (Charles). L'Acropole. Paris, Edition Albert Morancé, [ca 1930]. 2 volumes in folio format (51.5 x 35.6 cm). Volume of paperback text and plates in leaves, all in publisher's laced cardboard folders, boards printed in the style of the period, red cloth spine. Monumental reference work on the Acropolis of Athens by French archaeologist and ancient Greek specialist Charles Picard: 1. The Entrance, The Bastion of Athena Nike, The Propylaea. 43 pp, [1] f. (table), 74 plates (numbered 1 to 75 with one double plate - nos. 21 and 22). 2. The Upper Plateau, the Erechtheion, the southern annexes. 85 pp., [2] ff. (table), 84 plates (of 85, plate 5 is missing). The 2 plans in color ? Both volumes include black photographic reproductions in the text. Some soiling to the slipcases, one spine slightly split, but a fine copy.