Details Geometriques de la Grotte D’Antiparos.

Fascinating cross section of the Antiparos Grotto, with a plan at top right. Decorative title with cherubs and cave torches. This plate is from Volume I of Choiseul-Gouffier’s Voyage Pittoresque, a cartographic survey of the Mediterranean and an account of his tour (with the artist, J.B. Hilaire) of Greece, the Greek islands, the coast of Asia Minor. According to Brunet, it was incontestably the most beautiful production of this kind seen until then. Choiseul-Gouffier's work offered for the first time, illustrations of remote places that complemented the scrupulously researched narrative .

Fine condition.