![BARBAULT, Jean (c.1705-1766). Les plus beaux monuments de Rome ancienne. [Bound with:] – Les plus beaux edifices de Rome moderne. Rome: chez Bouchard & Gravier, de l'Imprimerie de Komarek, 1761-1763.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2019/CKS/2019_CKS_17736_0226_001(barbault_jean_les_plus_beaux_monuments_de_rome_ancienne_bound_with_les051113).jpg?w=1)
![BARBAULT, Jean (c.1705-1766). Les plus beaux monuments de Rome ancienne. [Bound with:] – Les plus beaux edifices de Rome moderne. Rome: chez Bouchard & Gravier, de l'Imprimerie de Komarek, 1761-1763.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2019/CKS/2019_CKS_17736_0226_002(barbault_jean_les_plus_beaux_monuments_de_rome_ancienne_bound_with_les051130).jpg?w=1)
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BARBAULT, Jean (c.1705-1766). Les plus beaux monuments de Rome ancienne. [Bound with:] – Les plus beaux edifices de Rome moderne. Rome: chez Bouchard & Gravier, de l'Imprimerie de Komarek, 1761-1763.
A fine set of Barbault’s elegant views of the architectural highlights of ancient and modern Rome. The volume dealing with Roman antiquities has the plates mainly arranged in pairs of one large view and one smaller plate with relating subject matter. The modern views are all impressive double-page plates, with Barbault offering alternative differing angles and points of view, so that he could fill the iconographic voids that could be found in his rival, Giambattista Piranesi’s work. Brunet I, 646; Cohen-Ricci 112; Graesse I, 289; first work: Fowler 37; RIBA 184; second work: Berlin Kat. 2712.
2 volumes bound in one, broadsheets (517 x 330mm). Engraved vignettes on titles and 30 tailpieces, 44 double-page and 73 single-page plates, of which 44 have 2 separate impressions, woodcut decorative initials (without half-titles, first work with old repair to marginal tear on leaf B and browning to leaf 2V and adjacent plate, but otherwise a clean, crisp copy with only a few minor insignificant scattered spots and stains). Contemporary calf by Brunck, signed in gilt at foot of spine, spine gilt in 8 compartments, gilt lettering-piece in second (extremities rubbed, head- and tailcaps heavily). Provenance: John Waldie (armorial bookplate) – Sir Richard and Lady Waldie Griffith (presentation inscription gifting the book as a wedding present to:) – Lady Burleigh.
A fine set of Barbault’s elegant views of the architectural highlights of ancient and modern Rome. The volume dealing with Roman antiquities has the plates mainly arranged in pairs of one large view and one smaller plate with relating subject matter. The modern views are all impressive double-page plates, with Barbault offering alternative differing angles and points of view, so that he could fill the iconographic voids that could be found in his rival, Giambattista Piranesi’s work. Brunet I, 646; Cohen-Ricci 112; Graesse I, 289; first work: Fowler 37; RIBA 184; second work: Berlin Kat. 2712.
2 volumes bound in one, broadsheets (517 x 330mm). Engraved vignettes on titles and 30 tailpieces, 44 double-page and 73 single-page plates, of which 44 have 2 separate impressions, woodcut decorative initials (without half-titles, first work with old repair to marginal tear on leaf B and browning to leaf 2V and adjacent plate, but otherwise a clean, crisp copy with only a few minor insignificant scattered spots and stains). Contemporary calf by Brunck, signed in gilt at foot of spine, spine gilt in 8 compartments, gilt lettering-piece in second (extremities rubbed, head- and tailcaps heavily). Provenance: John Waldie (armorial bookplate) – Sir Richard and Lady Waldie Griffith (presentation inscription gifting the book as a wedding present to:) – Lady Burleigh.
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