HABITANS DE L’ILE DE NAXIA. DAMES DE L’ILE DE TINE.

A lovely pair of engravings of islanders. The top showing two men, a woman and child by the sea in Naxos, the bottom showing two women inside a house in Tine.In 1776 Choiseul-Gouffier and the artist J.B. Hilaire joined a cartographic survey of the Mediterranean. Volume I of Voyage Pittoresque, his account of their tour of the Greek islands, the coast of Asia Minor, and of his travels on the mainland, was immediately acclaimed on publication in 1778. 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, with good wide margins.