FIRST AND ONLY EDITION of this scarce and essential illustrated book about a voyage to the Levant. This is the RARE HAND-COLOURED ISSUE in which the 12 dramatic full-page hors-texte tinted lithographs are all BEAUTIFULLY COLOURED BY A CONTEMPORARY HAND. 4to. Light wear to extremities of binding internally FINE AND BRIGHT with no defects. This coloured issue is very rare: we have found only one other recorded copy despite extensive research. Attractively bound in the publisher’s illustrated cloth in full black glazed calico, spine richly illustrated with a decorative gilt scene, first board decorated with a large polychrome and gilt scene Coloured plates in order: 1. Frontispiece. Un Port de mer en Sicile. 2. Exterieur d'une maison de Campagne en Grece. 3. Vue de Canal d'Afteh. 4. Les bords du Nil. 5. La Halte au Desert (Egypte). 6. Une Fontaine a Constantinople. 7. Un Cimetiere Turc. 8. Un Fort Russe dans l'Abasie. 9. Un Vignoble en Crimee. 10. La Dobrutscha. 11. Un relai de Poste en Valachie. 12. La Vendetta Montenegrine.