BROSSET, Marie-Félicité. MELLIN. - Lot 186

BROSSET, Marie-Félicité. MELLIN. Les Ruines d'Ani, capitale de l'Arménie sous les rois bagratides, au Xe et XIe siècles, histoire et description par M. Brosset. St. Petersburg, Imp. de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences, 1861. In-4 oblong (26.5 x 34 cm), (1) f., 44 plates (of 45, without plate IV). Contemporary green half-basane (worn binding, very slight foxing, small tears in lower margin of plate 29, slight oxidation). Atlas of Marie-Félicité Brosset's work on the medieval Armenian city of Ani, today located in eastern Turkey, in the province of Kars, west of the border with Armenia. This copy comprises the title page of the second issue and 44 lithographed plates in non-oir by Robert Mellin. Plate IV of a Greek church is lacking. With a map of the ruins of Ani lithographed by Gueritte and Musnler: ABICII, H. Plan topographique des ruines de la ville d'Ani, levé sur les lieux et dessiné par H. Abicii en 1844. St. Petersburg, Imp. by Paul Petit, (mid-19th). One black lithographed folding map (48.4 x 57 cm) (small holes on folds at corners).