MIDDLE EAST. ARMENIA. TRAVEL. ASIA MINOR. COSTUMES. - Lot 241

MIDDLE EAST. ARMENIA. TRAVEL. ASIA MINOR. COSTUMES. Important lot of antique engravings and prints. Set of plates and maps, in black and sometimes colored or printed in color, illustrating Turkey, Persia, Arabia, the Black Sea... 17th to 19th centuries. Various formats, various states. Some foxing present. All in green percaline and cardboard wallet in folio format. Contains in particular : A lot of Portraits en buste, etchings in black from THEUET (XVIIth century). MALLET, 1683. Albania, Great Armenia, Colchis and Iberia According to the Ancients. Rare. Small in-8 black engraved map. Numerous engravings from costume suites or works evoking and illustrating native populations. 17th or 18th century. Burins of biblical scenes. Chromolithographs. HOMMAIRE DE HELL (Xavier). Voyage en Turquie et en Perse exécuté par ordre du Gouvernement français pendant les années 1846, 1847 et 1848... Atlas historique et scientifique. Paris, A. Bertrand, 1859. 17 plates in sheets (39.6 x 57.2 cm). MAPS by Philippe Bauche: Alexandri Magni Imperium et Expeditio Tabula. Paris, 1745. 1 engraved on copper (approx. 52 x 88 cm), colored borders (slight russeting); Theatrum historicum ad annum Christi quadringentesimum ... Pars orientalis. 1745. engraved on copper (52 x 70 cm), colored borders; Carte générale pour servir à l'intelligence de l'Histoire Sainte... 1783. 1 map engraved on copper (34 x 39 cm), boundaries colored Engraved by Duval; Carte de Perse dressée pour l'usage du Roy. Paris, 1745. engraved on copper (55.5 x 76 cm), boundaries colored (slight russeting) Engraved by Duval P. Starck-man Engraved title of the work by Clément Pellé and Léon Galibert Voyage en Syrie et dans l'Asie Mineur. London & Paris, Fisher Son & Co. 1840. Adorned with a large vignette of the Convent of Sainte-Antoine, near Ehden, northern Lebanon. BLANCHARD. COLLIGNON. Funérailles Arabes prés Tangers (Salon de 1841). 1 copperplate engraving (23 x 28.4 cm). Dry stamp "Artiste" [c. 1840]. MOREAU (the young) / SIMONET (engraver). Alaϊh or March of the Surré-Éminy, with the sacred camels and treasure destined for Mecca. 1 copper-engraved view (53 x 66.5 cm). Very rare. MELLING / SCHROEDER, engraver. View of the great arcade of the Baktché-Kieuï aqueduct (faded). [View of the tip of the Seraglio in Constantinople]. 1782. Large etching in black before the letter. Engraved by G. Malbeste. From the "Voyage de la Grèce". A set of Armenian etchings in black with title depicting Moses (19th century). Several black lithographs by Eugène Leroux after Decamps.