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LE ROY, Julien David (1728-1803). Les Ruines des plus beaux monuments de la Grèce. Paris: H. L. Guerin & L. F. Delatour, and Jean-Luc Nyon; and Amsterdam: Jean Neaulme, 1758.
2 parts in one volume, 2º (558 x 410mm). 60 full-page engraved views, architectural plans and maps by Le Bas and Littret de Montigny, de Neufforge and Patte after Le Roy, woodcut tailpieces. (Some plates browned, waterstain at bottom margins occasionally spreading.) Contemporary calf, gilt spine tooled with geometrical patterns and amphorae, red morocco title label, yellow edges (spine frayed, light scuffing to covers, corners worn). Provenance: Jasper More (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION of this important discourse on the history and architecture of ancient Greece, a model for the development of French neo-classical architecture. Le Roy, a leading French architect of his time, was trained by Jacques-François Blondel and later succeeded him as Professor of Architecture at the Académie Royale d'Architecture. He went to Greece in 1754, and published Les Ruines after four years spent measuring and drawing the ancient monuments and sites. Berlin Kat. 1888; Cicognara 2705; Millard French, 101; RIBA 1875.
2 parts in one volume, 2º (558 x 410mm). 60 full-page engraved views, architectural plans and maps by Le Bas and Littret de Montigny, de Neufforge and Patte after Le Roy, woodcut tailpieces. (Some plates browned, waterstain at bottom margins occasionally spreading.) Contemporary calf, gilt spine tooled with geometrical patterns and amphorae, red morocco title label, yellow edges (spine frayed, light scuffing to covers, corners worn). Provenance: Jasper More (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION of this important discourse on the history and architecture of ancient Greece, a model for the development of French neo-classical architecture. Le Roy, a leading French architect of his time, was trained by Jacques-François Blondel and later succeeded him as Professor of Architecture at the Académie Royale d'Architecture. He went to Greece in 1754, and published Les Ruines after four years spent measuring and drawing the ancient monuments and sites. Berlin Kat. 1888; Cicognara 2705; Millard French, 101; RIBA 1875.
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