Sale 2563 - Lot 15
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Sale 2563 - Lot 15
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
Blondel, Jacques-Francois (1705-1774)
Cours d'Architecture, ou Traité de la Decoration, Distribution, & Construction des Bâtiments.
Paris: Chez Desaint, 1771-1777.
Nine volumes (six smaller octavo volumes and three larger octavo plate volumes), bound in very good uniform contemporary gold-tooled marbled reddish morocco, flat spines, decorated with ornate tooling, green lettering pieces, and round onlaid volume numbers, nicely preserved, plate volumes comprise six parts bound in three volumes, including a total of 377 full-page and folding engravings, a nice set, text volumes: 7 1/2 x 4 3/4 in.; plate volumes 8 1/2 x 5 1/4 in.
Berlin Kat. 2429; Fowler 51; Millard 29; RIBA I 296.
Cours d'Architecture, ou Traité de la Decoration, Distribution, & Construction des Bâtiments.
Paris: Chez Desaint, 1771-1777.
Nine volumes (six smaller octavo volumes and three larger octavo plate volumes), bound in very good uniform contemporary gold-tooled marbled reddish morocco, flat spines, decorated with ornate tooling, green lettering pieces, and round onlaid volume numbers, nicely preserved, plate volumes comprise six parts bound in three volumes, including a total of 377 full-page and folding engravings, a nice set, text volumes: 7 1/2 x 4 3/4 in.; plate volumes 8 1/2 x 5 1/4 in.
Berlin Kat. 2429; Fowler 51; Millard 29; RIBA I 296.