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Édifices de Rome moderne ou recueil des palais, maisons, églises, couvents, et autres monuments publics et particuliers les plus remarquables de la ville de Rome, dessinés, mesurés et publiés par Paul Letarouilly, architecte. Translated: Buildings of modern Rome or collection of palaces, houses, churches, convents, and other public and private monuments most remarkable of the city of Rome, drawn, measured, and published by Paul Letarouilly, architect.
Letarouilly, Paul · Paris
- Author
- Letarouilly, Paul
- Date
- c1840-57
- Place
- Paris
- Publisher
- Bance
- Language
- English
- Binding
- Folio.(15.5" x 22.5") 3 volumes. Burgundy cloth . Spines with gilt title/author/vol.#. Small ink library stamps at the foot of pages or margins of plates, not affecting text or images. Lighter spotting and foxing throughout. Illustrated with 354 engraved plates, measured drawings, a Frontispiece, an engraved portrait of the author/architect, with a large 2 page maps of Rome and it's environs. Includes an alphabetical listing of plate subjects in each volume. Minor edgewear, mostly to bottom edge of boards, tips bumped and rubbed. Head and foot of spine ruffled with small closed tears., covers lightly soiled., extremities rubbed. Bookplate to front pastedown from Boston Public Library, with multiple discard and deassecion stamps. Every volume with mutiple stamps in the preface and to the lower corner of each plate. Plates and pages toward front and rear of text foxed with lighter spots. Plate 103 with closed tears at foot, fore-edge chipped. Plate 112 with taped closed tear affecting image. Plate 233 with small chip lacking top fore-edge.
- Format
- Three large folios of architectural plates
- Category
- Fore-Edge Paintings
- Record
- S.I.9317
Édifices de Rome moderne ou recueil des palais, maisons, églises, couvents, et autres monuments publics et particuliers les plus remarquables de la ville de Rome, dessinés, mesurés et publiés par Paul Letarouilly, architecte. Translated: Buildings of modern Rome or collection of palaces, houses, churches, convents, and other public and private monuments most remarkable of the city of Rome, drawn, measured, and published by Paul Letarouilly, architect. Three Folio Volumes. Folio.(15.5" x 22.5") 3 volumes. 1840-57, Paris: Bance. Burgundy cloth. Spines with gilt title/author/vol.#. Small ink library stamps at the foot of pages or margins of plates, not affecting text, but stamped very close to images. Lighter spotting and foxing throughout. Illustrated with 354 engraved plates, measured drawings, a Frontispiece, an engraved portrait of the author/architect, with a large 2 page map of Rome and it's environs. Includes an alphabetical listing of plate subjects in each volume. Minor edgewear, mostly to bottom edge of boards, tips bumped and rubbed. Head and foot of spine ruffled with small closed tears, covers lightly soiled, extremities rubbed. Bookplate to front pastedown from Boston Public Library, with multiple discard and deaccession stamps. Every volume with multiple stamps in the preface and to the lower corner of each plate. Plates and pages toward front and rear of text foxed with lighter spots. Plate 103 with closed tears at foot, fore-edge chipped. Plate 112 with taped closed tear affecting image. Plate 233 with small chip lacking top fore-edge.
Condition
Good +
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