Books and Manuscripts

Texier, Charles, and R. Popplewell Pullan
The Principal Ruins of Asia Minor, Illustrated and Described
London: Published by Day & Son, 1865. First edition. Folio, 19 1/4 x 13 in. (489 x 330 mm). vi, (ii), 56 pp. Illustrated with a lithographic frontispiece map and 50 lithographic plates (numbered 1-51, with Pl. 35 and 36 being a double-page plate), by Lemaitre after Charles Texier; with original tissue guards. Publisher's blue cloth, stamped in gilt, expertly rebacked with original spine laid down, corners expertly restored, boards rubbed and somewhat faded, spine and boards unevenly darkened; all edges gilt; indiscreet blindstamp of the Wigan Free Public Library at bottom of title-page, p. 47, pl. 8, pl. 22, and pl. 51; some fore-edges and top edges of plates slightly darkened. Blackmer 1648

A handsome first edition of French archaeologist and historian Charles Texier's study on Byzantine architecture in Asia Minor, drawn from studies made by him in the region between 1833-37, and from Richard Popplewell Pullan's studies executed on behalf of the Society of the Dilettanti in 1862. The work includes detailed maps, plans, elevations, and reconstructions of ruins of temples and theaters at Assos, Branchidae, Aizani, Ancyra, Aphrodisias, Aspendus, Iassos, Myra, Patara and Pergamus, and is a sequel to Texier and Pullan's Byzantine Architecture, published the previous year, in 1864 (see lot 152).