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Lot 536

LABORDE (ALEXANDRE LOUIS JOSEPH, Comte de)
Les monumens de la France classés chronologiquement et considérés sous le rapport des faits historiques et de l'étude des arts, 2 vol.

22 November 2011, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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LABORDE (ALEXANDRE LOUIS JOSEPH, Comte de)

Les monumens de la France classés chronologiquement et considérés sous le rapport des faits historiques et de l'étude des arts, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, engraved frontispiece in volume one, engraved vignette on titles, 259 engraved plates on 258 sheets (nos. 180 and 184 on one sheet, 21 double-page) by L.P. Baltard, J.M.S. Bence, M.-A. Duparc, Georges Malbeste, Joseph Perdoux, Mlle. A. Pillement, Benedikt Piringer, Nicolas Louis Rouseau, and others after Bence, C. Bourgeois, Charles de Vèze, Vauzelles and others, blindstamp on titles and plates (mostly marginal), later green half crushed morocco, t.e.g., folio (578 x 410mm.), Paris, Jules Didot, 1816-1836

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A magnificent survey of important French monuments, the first volume devoted to Roman architecture and antiquities, the second to the Romanesque to High Renaissance period.

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