[Volume 1] Voyage Pittoresque de Constantinople et des Rives du Bosphore

Atlas volume of engravings has only engraved, illustrated half-title: Voyage pittoresque de Constantinople et du Bosphore : Collection des planches

Barbi?e du Bocage signed the text relating to the three maps (22 p., final leaf reversed) and many engravers provided plates: F.-D. N?ee, F. Schroeder, J.-N. Le Rouge, J.-B. R?eville, Desmaisons, F.-N.-B. Dequevauviller, J. Desaulx, J. Duplessi-Bertaux, F. Cardano, J.-J. Coiny, Y.M. La Gouaz, F. Pigeot, V. Pillement, M.-A. Duparc, Mlle. Lev?e, L.-M.-Y. Qu?everdo, E. Bovinet, C.-P. Marillier, F.-P. Michel. Some plates have an additional credit (after Dessin?e par ... and Grav?e par ...): Termin?e par ... In the instance of F.-D. N?ee these are dated, ranging from 1806 to 1815

Plate impressions are oblong and bound along the top margin. Some plates are numbered, some numbers are used twice, some plates are unnumbered and interspersed. Two possible arrangements outlined in v. 1 which these seem not to follow closely. With the exception of the port. of Selim III (frontis. of text vol.), all other plates including the 3 maps are bound together, 51 leaves of plates in all

Maps include: Plan de la ville de Constantinople et de ses faubourgs ... / par Fr. Kauffer ; enriche de nouveaux d?etails par J.-D. Barbi?e du Bocage 1819; F.P. Michel sculp. Plate impression 51.3 x 85 cm. Includes: Plan[s] particulier[s] de serails [and] du chateau des sept-tours. -- Plan topographique de Bosphore de Thrace ou Canal de Constantinople et de ses environs ... par Fr. Kauffer ; J.-D. Barbi?e du Bocage. 1819. 51.2 x 86.5 cm. -- Plan indicatif des points d'o?u M. Melling a dessin?e les vues. 57.5 x 86.5 cm

References:

Boppe, A. Peintres du Bosphore; Boschma, C. & J. Perot. Melling