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More imagesExpedition Scientifique de Moree, Ordonnee par le Gouvernement Francais. Architecture, Sculptures, Inscriptions et vues du Peloponese, des Cyclades et de l'Attique (3 volume set)
Guillaume Abel Blouet; Frederic de Gournay; Achille Poirot; Amable Ravoisie; Felix Trezel
Published by Paris : Didot, 1831
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Three atlas folio volumes. 57.5 x 43 cm. First edition, 1831-1838. 3 engraved additional titles, 262 plates, 6 double-page or folding, 5 hand-colored. Fully rebound in 3/4 moracco leather over marbled boards. Top edge gilt and gilt to spine. Marbled end papers. Perforated library stamps… to each plate, foxing and soiling to plates. Page margins brittle. This is an extremely oversized and heavy set, which WILL require additional postage for international delivery outside the US. The Morea Scientific Expedition (part of the French military mission), arrived in Greece in March, 1829. The mission to the Peloponnese was sent to counter growing Russian influence in the post-Ottoman Greece. The Morea expedition was the second of the great military-scientific expeditions led by France in the first half of the 19th century. The archeological expedition was launched by France in recognition of the importance of Hellenic origins of Western civilization. It was decided to "take advantage of the presence of our soldiers who were occupying the Morea to send a learned commission. It did not have to equal that attached to the glory of Napoleon. It did however need to render em'inent services to the arts and sciences." (Blouet, Expedition de Moree, p. xxii.) The Expedition was organized into three sections: architecture, archaeology and natural sciences. This work represents the archaeological and architectural sections, directed by Guillaume Abel Blouet. "The plan of the work follows the itinerary of the expedition, which included Byzantine, early Christian and medieval antiquities, along with more exhaustive surveys of the principal classical remains at Pylos, Messene, Olympia, Phigalia, Megalopolis, Sparta, Argos, Mycenae, Nemea and Corinth, and on the islands of Delos, Naxos, Aegina and Cape Sounion (Sunium). Particular attention is given to the temples of Jupiter at Olympia, of Apollo at Bassae, near Phigalia and of Jupiter on the island of Aegina. Blouet and his colleagues were the first archaeologists to identify the ruin of the temple at Olympia as the famous temple of Jupiter described by Pausanias" (BAL RIBA). "An important work which marked a turning point in the history of archaeological studies and served as a model for other works of a similar kind" (Blackmer). Refs: Blackmer 153; BAL RIBA 1009; Brunet II, 1135.
