Apr 08, 2021 - Sale 2563

Sale 2563 - Lot 15

Price Realized: $ 3,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
Blondel, Jacques-Francois (1705-1774)
Cours d'Architecture, ou Traité de la Decoration, Distribution, & Construction des Bâtiments.

Paris: Chez Desaint, 1771-1777.

Nine volumes (six smaller octavo volumes and three larger octavo plate volumes), bound in very good uniform contemporary gold-tooled marbled reddish morocco, flat spines, decorated with ornate tooling, green lettering pieces, and round onlaid volume numbers, nicely preserved, plate volumes comprise six parts bound in three volumes, including a total of 377 full-page and folding engravings, a nice set, text volumes: 7 1/2 x 4 3/4 in.; plate volumes 8 1/2 x 5 1/4 in.

Berlin Kat. 2429; Fowler 51; Millard 29; RIBA I 296.