PERCIER, CHARLES and PIERRE FRANCOIS LÉONARD FONTAINE. Choix des plus célèbres maisons de plaisance de Rome et de ses environs. Paris: Pierre Didot l'Aîné 1809. Large folio, 567 x 390mm. (22 5/16 x 15 5/16in.), modern half vellum, original boards, endpapers renewed, board edges severely rubbed, a few short marginal tears, a few corners bent, palte 75 creased, plates 28-35 misbound between plates 3 and 4, and plate 39 bis between pl. 42 and 43, small dampstains to plates 46 and 52, foxing, marginal soiling, occasional showthrough. FIRST EDITION, half-title, the unnumbered section title for the Villa d'Este bound in as frontispiece, 17 engraved head- and tail-piece vignettes, 77 etched and engraved plates (including section titles and plate 39 bis), by Filbot, Bonnard, Pillement, Nicquet and others after Percier and Fontaine, showing plans, views and elevations of 24 villas in the Roman countryside, with details of their gardens. Brunet IV, 489; cf. Berlin Katalog 2500 (second edition of 1824 only). | Christie's

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PERCIER, CHARLES and PIERRE FRANCOIS LÉONARD FONTAINE. Choix des plus célèbres maisons de plaisance de Rome et de ses environs. Paris: Pierre Didot l'Aîné 1809. Large folio, 567 x 390mm. (22 5/16 x 15 5/16in.), modern half vellum, original boards, endpapers renewed, board edges severely rubbed, a few short marginal tears, a few corners bent, palte 75 creased, plates 28-35 misbound between plates 3 and 4, and plate 39 bis between pl. 42 and 43, small dampstains to plates 46 and 52, foxing, marginal soiling, occasional showthrough. FIRST EDITION, half-title, the unnumbered section title for the Villa d'Este bound in as frontispiece, 17 engraved head- and tail-piece vignettes, 77 etched and engraved plates (including section titles and plate 39 bis), by Filbot, Bonnard, Pillement, Nicquet and others after Percier and Fontaine, showing plans, views and elevations of 24 villas in the Roman countryside, with details of their gardens. Brunet IV, 489; cf. Berlin Katalog 2500 (second edition of 1824 only).

细节

PERCIER, CHARLES and PIERRE FRANCOIS LÉONARD FONTAINE. Choix des plus célèbres maisons de plaisance de Rome et de ses environs. Paris: Pierre Didot l'Aîné 1809. Large folio, 567 x 390mm. (22 5/16 x 15 5/16in.), modern half vellum, original boards, endpapers renewed, board edges severely rubbed, a few short marginal tears, a few corners bent, palte 75 creased, plates 28-35 misbound between plates 3 and 4, and plate 39 bis between pl. 42 and 43, small dampstains to plates 46 and 52, foxing, marginal soiling, occasional showthrough. FIRST EDITION, half-title, the unnumbered section title for the Villa d'Este bound in as frontispiece, 17 engraved head- and tail-piece vignettes, 77 etched and engraved plates (including section titles and plate 39 bis), by Filbot, Bonnard, Pillement, Nicquet and others after Percier and Fontaine, showing plans, views and elevations of 24 villas in the Roman countryside, with details of their gardens. Brunet IV, 489; cf. Berlin Katalog 2500 (second edition of 1824 only).

来源

Königliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste (Berlin), ink-stamp on title, with release stamp dated 1919.