Pascal Xavier Coste
Unknown
Estimate: 5.000 - 8.000 GBP
Price realised: 10.000 GBP
Price realised: 10.000 GBP
Description
PASCAL XAVIER COSTE (1787-1879)
Monuments modernes de la Perse mesurés, dessinés et décrits. Paris: A. Morel, 1867. 2° (562 x 425mm) 71 plans and views on 56 leaves, 8 of these chromolithographed, 1 aquatint, the rest engraved or engraved and etched, some folding, after Coste. (Some spotting, mostly in the margins but one chromolithograph heavily spotted and the others with some spotting in the image.) Contemporary red half morocco, spine in compartments each centred with a gilt crescent moon, top edge gilt (extremities rubbed).
FIRST EDITION of Coste's rare survey of Persian architecture, including some splendid chromolithographed views. Coste had spent a decade in Egypt engaged in engineering projects for Mehmet Ali before travelling to Persia with his collaborator Eugène Flandin, as part of the French diplomatic mission there in 1839-1841. Coste had previously published Voyage en Perse in collaboration with Flandin. Wilson, p. 49; see Blackmer 415; not in Atabey.
Monuments modernes de la Perse mesurés, dessinés et décrits. Paris: A. Morel, 1867. 2° (562 x 425mm) 71 plans and views on 56 leaves, 8 of these chromolithographed, 1 aquatint, the rest engraved or engraved and etched, some folding, after Coste. (Some spotting, mostly in the margins but one chromolithograph heavily spotted and the others with some spotting in the image.) Contemporary red half morocco, spine in compartments each centred with a gilt crescent moon, top edge gilt (extremities rubbed).
FIRST EDITION of Coste's rare survey of Persian architecture, including some splendid chromolithographed views. Coste had spent a decade in Egypt engaged in engineering projects for Mehmet Ali before travelling to Persia with his collaborator Eugène Flandin, as part of the French diplomatic mission there in 1839-1841. Coste had previously published Voyage en Perse in collaboration with Flandin. Wilson, p. 49; see Blackmer 415; not in Atabey.
A top price for Pascal Coste
The work Unknown by Pascal Coste was sold in the Travel, Science and Natural History auction at Christies in London in October 2012. It achieved a price of GBP 10,000.00 (€ 12,433.25), exceeding the upper end of the estimate range by 25%. With this result, Unknown is even the most expensive work of art by Pascal Coste that we have observed at auctions so far.
Ein Spitzenpreis für Pascal Coste
Die Arbeit Unknown von Pascal Coste wurde im Oktober 2012 in der Auktion Travel, Science and Natural History bei Christies in London versteigert. Sie erzielte dabei einen Preis von GBP 10.000,00 (€ 12.433,25) und übertraf damit das obere Ende der Schätzpreisspanne um 25%. Mit diesem Ergebnis ist Unknown sogar das teuerste Kunstwerk von Pascal Coste, das wir bisher bei Auktionen beobachtet haben.
Pascal Coste - Auction history
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