XAVIER HOMMAIRE DE HELL (1812-1848)
XAVIER HOMMAIRE DE HELL (1812-1848) Les Steppes de la Mer Caspienne, le Caucase, la Crimée et la Russie Méridionale. Atlas Scientifique [-- Atlas Historique ]. Paris: P. Bertrand, 1845. 2 atlas vols bound in one, 2° (442 x 315mm). Wood-engraved title vignettes, large folding hand-coloured engraved map, double-page diagram, 6 lithographed paleontological plates, 4 double-page charts, 25 tinted lithographed plates, some of these partially hand-coloured. (Some mostly marginal spotting, large map reinforced with paper tape at one fold.) Contemporary green half sheep, flat spine tooled in blind within gilt-ruled compartments, contrasting green morocco labels (spine ends and labels chipped, some wear, sides scuffed). Provenance : Bibliotheque de Narbonne (small stamps on verso of each plate, title stamps with inventory number 1472). FIRST EDITION. 'THE BEST BOOK ON THIS AREA' (Atabey); atlas volumes only, complete with the large geological map of the Black Sea littoral and Southern Russia. In 1835 Hommaire de Hell, an engineer, travelled to Constantinople where he built a suspension bridge. Three years later he began his ethnographic and geological studies in Southern Russia, discovering valuable coal deposits along the Dnieper. He later travelled to Persia, dying at Isfahan in 1848. Atabey 591; Brunet III, 295; not in Weber or Blackmer.
XAVIER HOMMAIRE DE HELL (1812-1848)
XAVIER HOMMAIRE DE HELL (1812-1848) Les Steppes de la Mer Caspienne, le Caucase, la Crimée et la Russie Méridionale. Atlas Scientifique [-- Atlas Historique ]. Paris: P. Bertrand, 1845. 2 atlas vols bound in one, 2° (442 x 315mm). Wood-engraved title vignettes, large folding hand-coloured engraved map, double-page diagram, 6 lithographed paleontological plates, 4 double-page charts, 25 tinted lithographed plates, some of these partially hand-coloured. (Some mostly marginal spotting, large map reinforced with paper tape at one fold.) Contemporary green half sheep, flat spine tooled in blind within gilt-ruled compartments, contrasting green morocco labels (spine ends and labels chipped, some wear, sides scuffed). Provenance : Bibliotheque de Narbonne (small stamps on verso of each plate, title stamps with inventory number 1472). FIRST EDITION. 'THE BEST BOOK ON THIS AREA' (Atabey); atlas volumes only, complete with the large geological map of the Black Sea littoral and Southern Russia. In 1835 Hommaire de Hell, an engineer, travelled to Constantinople where he built a suspension bridge. Three years later he began his ethnographic and geological studies in Southern Russia, discovering valuable coal deposits along the Dnieper. He later travelled to Persia, dying at Isfahan in 1848. Atabey 591; Brunet III, 295; not in Weber or Blackmer.
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