Lot 705: ARCHITECTURE TOSCANE, OU PALAIS, MAISONS, ET AUTRES ÉDIFICES DE LA TOSCANE, MESURÉS ET DESSINÉS […].

Folio: vii-50 pp.; engr. title, 109 pl. (some spotting and sm. stains mostly marginal, sl. foxing and waterstains on the 1st lvs). - First edition of a rare architectural atlas of Tuscany, by two French architects, former "pensionnaires" of the "Académie de France" in Rome. Copy complete with 1 engr. title and 109 pl. (pl. 21 numbered 25 and misplaced, pl. 74 not numbered). Divided into 18 sections, each with a nice ornamental and engraved sub-title, and beautiful detailed plans, views of palaces, churches, etc. in Florence, Sienna, Arezzo, Livorno and Pisa. Chronological table of the architects mentioned (Giotto, Alberti, Michelangelo, Brunelleschi, Scamozzi, Vasari, etc.). Grandjean (1776-1850), who won the "prix de Rome" in 1779, worked in France, Italy, and Brazil where he died. He also restored the Bellevue Palace in Kassel during the reign of Jerome Bonaparte, King of Westphalia. - Ref. CCFr (2 copies: BnF). - Not in Kat. Berlin, Fowler, M.J. Millard. - Bound with, same author and format: [Plan, coupe, élévation et détails de la restauration du palais des États et de sa nouvelle salle à Cassel. Cassel, Impr. Royale, 1810]. 8 pp.; 10 pl. (title missing, browning and spotting).-- 3 additional plates signed Grandjean: plan and elevation of his house in Kassel, and details of a small temple in his garden (ca. 1812). - Prov. G.T.A. Degeorge, architecte (supralibros).

1815

Contemp. marbled calf, gilt lettered supralibros on the upper side, flat spine gilt and decorated, red leather title-label, red sprinkled edges (rubbed, worm galleries on the lower side, some missings on the lower turn-in and the corners).