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Roma - Grasset de Saint-Sauveur, Jacques

Antique Rome or the historical and picturesque description of everything here concerns the Roman people, in their civil, military and religious customs., 1796

Estimate

€ 200 - 300

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€ 516

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

Paris, Deroy, 1796. In 4th. 256 x 195mm. Engraved and colored title page, 50 plates engraved with aquatint hors texte by Grasset de Saint-Sauveur from Labrousse, colored at the time, blond calfskin binding with gold decorations on the plates and spine. Ex libris on the cover of the famous doctor Jacques Coster (1795-1868).

Specialist Notes

FIRST EDITION, in a beautiful copy WITH COLOR PLATES. Colas mentions that the plates exist in both black and color. Grasset de Saint-Sauveur, draftsman and watercolourist, was also a diplomat and writer.
Rossetti 5510. Cohen-Ricci 451. Colas 1298. Hiler 389. Lipperheide Be 29 Anm.

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