Jun 13, 2017 - Sale 2451

Sale 2451 - Lot 22

Unsold
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(ARCHITECTURE.) Percier, Charles; and Pierre Fontaine. Choix des plus Célébres Maisons de Plaisance de Rome et de ses Environs. Second Edition. Frontispiece and 76 engraved plates (numbered 1-38, 39a and b, 40-75 on 75 pages) of plans, elevations and perspective views of villas and gardens including those of Barberini, Borghese, Medici, Sacchetti, the Vatican, designed by Vignola, Bernini, Michelangelo and Vasari. Folio, later cloth over marbled boards, scuffed; endpapers renewed, scattered, mostly marginal foxing, small areas of marginal dampstaining to first third of contents. Paris: Jules Didot Ainé, 1824