Lot 06005

Académie de France à Rome, “ARCHITECTURE GRECQUE 1ere partie / Les Envois de Rome: restaurations des monuments anciens reproduites d’après les dessins originaux de M.M. les architectes pensionnaires de l’Académie de France à Rome”, Paris, [E. Pourchet], Aulanier & Cie, [c.1897]. Folio [40×30 cm], containing Sixty-six (66) illustrations on loose plate pages, with a table of contents all housed between two panels with pictorial paper over boards with string ties at the edges. Aulanier & Cie editors label pasted over E. Pourchet’s on front cover. A monumental work along ancient Greek architecture, with contributions by M. Lambert, M. Loviot, M. Ulmann, M. Guadet, M. Boitte, M. André, MM. Ballu et Titeux, M. Paulin, M. Defrasse, M. Bernier, and others. Plans and illustrations of the Acropolis, Parthenon, Temple of Athena Nike, The Temple of Minerva, antiquities of Delos, Eleusis and many other Greek architectural marvels. External rubbing and soiling, wear on upper part of title page and along middle-fold of 2 double-page engravings, the rest in excellent condition. Rare.