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LA GUEPIÈRE, Pierre-Louis Philippe de la (1725-1773). Recueil d'Esquisse d'Architecture représentant plusieurs monument de composition. Stuttgart: Cotta for the author, 1759.
2o (486 x 343 mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece, etched head-piece, 56 subjects on 48 engraved and etched plates, 2 of these with flaps; 29 are full-page, 17 double-page, 1 double-page with folding extension, and one very large (1560 x 1150 mm) folding plan of the Ducal Palace; this last one by Lucas, seven of the plates signed by the architect. (Some tears to folds of large folding plate, some minor staining.) Contemporary stained calf gilt (light wear to spine ends and corners). Provenance: Anton Lorsch (early signature); acquired from Ars Libri, 1984.
FIRST EDITION, ONE OF THE RAREST WORKS ON ENLIGHTENMENT ARCHITECTURE. The Recueil includes a monumental plan of the Ducal Palace at Stuttgart, La Guepière's most important building. Two of the plates use flaps to indicate second stories. La Guepière's earlier and smaller Recueil of 1752 was the first French collection of the work of a single architect (Klaiber), and marked a significant departure from earlier surveys, or from theoretical treatises which may have included structures built by the author. The new genre provided a convenient form for the architect to advertise his services to prospective clients, as well as memorialize completed works. This plan appears to be missing from several copies (Berlin, CCA, Avery). Not at the National Gallery of Art, Harvard, or in the British Architecture Library. VERY RARE: according to American Book Prices Current no other copy has sold at auction in the last 35 years. Berlin Kat. 2413; Klaiber Der Würtembergische Oberaudirektor Philippe de la Guepière (1959).
2o (486 x 343 mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece, etched head-piece, 56 subjects on 48 engraved and etched plates, 2 of these with flaps; 29 are full-page, 17 double-page, 1 double-page with folding extension, and one very large (1560 x 1150 mm) folding plan of the Ducal Palace; this last one by Lucas, seven of the plates signed by the architect. (Some tears to folds of large folding plate, some minor staining.) Contemporary stained calf gilt (light wear to spine ends and corners). Provenance: Anton Lorsch (early signature); acquired from Ars Libri, 1984.
FIRST EDITION, ONE OF THE RAREST WORKS ON ENLIGHTENMENT ARCHITECTURE. The Recueil includes a monumental plan of the Ducal Palace at Stuttgart, La Guepière's most important building. Two of the plates use flaps to indicate second stories. La Guepière's earlier and smaller Recueil of 1752 was the first French collection of the work of a single architect (Klaiber), and marked a significant departure from earlier surveys, or from theoretical treatises which may have included structures built by the author. The new genre provided a convenient form for the architect to advertise his services to prospective clients, as well as memorialize completed works. This plan appears to be missing from several copies (Berlin, CCA, Avery). Not at the National Gallery of Art, Harvard, or in the British Architecture Library. VERY RARE: according to American Book Prices Current no other copy has sold at auction in the last 35 years. Berlin Kat. 2413; Klaiber Der Würtembergische Oberaudirektor Philippe de la Guepière (1959).