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Book Condition: Used
Seller: LIBRAIRIE CAMILLE SOURGET

France
About Item: Paris, P. Didot l'Aîné, 1802. Very large folio [680 x 510 mm] of (2) ll., 103 pp., 1 engraved frontispiece printed in colors and enhanced with watercolor and 22 out of pagination numbered plates, including 1 on double-page. Engravings in the text. Some slight foxing. Bound in contemporary brown Russian leather, covers richly decorated with gilt fillets and neo-classical borders, spine ribbed and decorated, gilt edges. Contemporary binding by Ph. Selenka with his label. Rare first edition of this superb work of which only 160 copies were printed. Vicaire, Manuel de l'amateur, IV, 741; Graesse, Trésor de livres rares, IV, 59; Brunet, III, 714; Cicognara 3960: " edizione di massimo lusso "; Monglond V, 1124-1125; Palau 128972. "Published at 200 fr.; this work has been, according to 'La France littéraire' by Quérard, printed in a limited edition of 160 copies" (Vicaire). The mosaic mentioned on the title (of about 13 x 9 meters) was discovered on December 12, 1799 in Italica (today the city of… Read More
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