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Thursday 09 March 2023 e Friday 10 March 2023, 03:00 PM • Rome

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Briseux, Charles-Etienne

Traite du beau essentiel dans les arts applique particulierement a l'Architecture, et demontre phisiquement et par l'experience, 1752

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€ 200 - 400

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€ 258

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Paris chez l'auteur rue Neuve Grange Bateliere et Chereau rue S.t Jacques au grand S.t Remy, 1752. 2 vols. In 2nd. All engraved in copper, with framed title pages, portrait of the author by J.G. Will in vol.I, 138 plates, a small woodworm hole that becomes a little bigger on plates 23-40 but with minor annoyance on only 2 images, some slight foxing, coeval mottled leather binding, embossed spine with 6 raised bands gold with double lug, abrasions, some defects on the back and edges.
First illustrated edition of this work illustrating the Louis XV style with plans, elevations and examples of interior decoration. Catalog Berlin, 2403 ; Fowler & Baer, 69; Millard, I, 42; Brunet, I, 1261.