[LATOUR, Antoine de] and André Louis W.A. de SINETY, Marquis (illustrator). Voyage de S.A.R. Monsiegneur le duc de Montpensier à Tunis, en Egypte, en Turquie et en Grèce. Paris: Arthus Bertrand, [1847]. Atlas vol. only, 2° (539 x 364mm), lithographic title and 31 tinted lithographic plates after Sinety, heightened in white. (Lightly washed, closed tear to margin of title, a few other small tears.) Old mottled boards (recently rebacked in calf, new endpapers).

[LATOUR, Antoine de] and André Louis W.A. de SINETY, Marquis (illustrator). Voyage de S.A.R. Monsiegneur le duc de Montpensier à Tunis, en Egypte, en Turquie et en Grèce. Paris: Arthus Bertrand, [1847]. Atlas vol. only, 2° (539 x 364mm), lithographic title and 31 tinted lithographic plates after Sinety, heightened in white. (Lightly washed, closed tear to margin of title, a few other small tears.) Old mottled boards (recently rebacked in calf, new endpapers).

FIRST EDITION. Montpensier, fifth son of Louis Philippe, travelled on a diplomatic mission to Egypt and the Levant in 1848, accompanied by his tutor-secretary Antoine de Latour, who wrote the text volume (not present here). They sailed on board the 'Gomer' where Sinety served as lieutenant and naval artist to the mission. Atabey 1138; Blackmer 952; Weber I, 400.