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Lot 552

PERRET (LOUIS)
Catacombs de Rome. Architecture, peintures, murales, lampes, vases, pierres precieuses, gravées, instruments, objets divers, fragments de vases en verre d'ore, inscriptions, figures et symboles gravés sur pierre, 6 vol. bound in 5

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

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PERRET (LOUIS)

Catacombs de Rome. Architecture, peintures, murales, lampes, vases, pierres precieuses, gravées, instruments, objets divers, fragments de vases en verre d'ore, inscriptions, figures et symboles gravés sur pierre, 6 vol. bound in 5, first edition, 327 lithographed and chromolithographed plates, light dampstain in a few foremargins of volumes 3 and 4, blindstamp on titles and final plate of each volume, later brown crushed half morocco gilt, t.e.g., folio (630 x 440mm.), Paris, Gide & J. Baudry, 1851-1855

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A SCRARCE COMPLETE SET of Perret's monumental study of the architecture, paintings and objects discovered within the catacombs of Rome. The first five volumes contain the plates, the sixth the text.

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