Lot 67: NEUFFORGE, Jean François de (1714-1791). Recueil elémentaire d'architecture . Paris: Armand Guérinet, [1757-1768, but 1905]. 8 volumes, 2° (465 x 340mm). Lithographic facsimile reprint of 8 etched titles, index leaf to vol. I, and 600

NEUFFORGE, Jean François de (1714-1791). Recueil elémentaire d'architecture. Paris: Armand Guérinet, [1757-1768, but 1905]. 8 volumes, 2° (465 x 340mm). Lithographic facsimile reprint of 8 etched titles, index leaf to vol. I, and 600 plates. (Occasional light browning, a few plates with minor fraying.) Original cloth-backed printed portfolios, cloth ties (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Wasmuth Antiquariat (Berlin bookseller's ticket).

RARE SET OF THE GUéRINET FACSIMILE REPRINT. 'The importance of this work lies not in the quality of Neufforge's designs, but in the way he set out, at a remarkably early date, to provide a complete repertoire of applications of the "gout grec" or "style mâl" to all branches of architecture' (RIBA). Cf. Berlin Kat 2410; Millard I, 123; RIBA 2258 (all first editions). Owing to variation in collations, this set is sold, as usual, not subject to return. (8)