Edifices Rome Moderne Volumes by Letarouilly Paul (10 results)

HARD BACK. Condition: Very Good. No. Six parts (The Scopas Series) complete in five volumes, Facsimilie volumes 3/4 blue board covers with black lettered spines; Vol I: Palais et Maisons; x pp followed by 62 plates; Vol. II: Palais et Maisons, iv pp with plates 63-118; Vol. III: Palais et Maisons x pp, plates 119-180; Vol. IV: Palais et Maisons iv pp, plates 181-236; Vols. V and VI as one: xii, plates 237-354; some have light fraying and/or sunning --- overall very good; all plates are referenced to the original edition; vocabulary to translate from French to English words repeated on plates; English summary of "Discours Preliminaire"; frontal views, elevations, side elevations, measured drawings, isometric views, notes on building materilas, chronological list of popes, list of principal buildings according to date of construction, index to plates, etc. Heavy item ,may attract additional postage. Size: 10"x15".…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. In original French with extensive English commentaries at rear. Tall folio, blue board covers, rubbed at corners, with bluie cloth to spines. Bottom of backstrip on third volume is loose. There is a total of 354 full page b/w plates across th three volumes and, at the rear, typically around pp.20 of modern commentary in English on the plates. Other miscellaneous information in English at the start of each Vol. Each book carries the Whitfield family crest on a bookplate inside cover. This is because these copies come from the LIbrary of the late Sir William Whitfield, 1920 - 2019, the distinguished British architect. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Reproductions of original vols - first published in Paris in 1840 Firmly cloth bound large quarto volumes. This set is complete. Edges a little rubbed but a good set overall. Volume One has 114 full page b/w plates of authors drawings and plans, Volume Two, 115 and Volume Three 122.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. [Italian Architecture] 3 tomes. Portfolio bindings. Mixed set, with different covers. Wear to covers. Light stain to front cover of v.1. Plates loose as issued. Clean, and unmarked. Not collated. 354 plates called for (I didn't count each plate to check if they are all there). Originally published 1840 - 1857. Architectural drawings and floor plans of churches and palaces, Palazzo della Cancellaria, Sancta Sanctorum chapel, Palazzo Sacchetti, etc.…

Ed. John Tiranti & Co, London - 1928, 8 tomes en 5 volumes in-folio, brochés, 354 planches Bel état, rares rousseurs insignifiantes. Planches seules - Pour les envois hors de France, la tafication «livre & brochure» pour les frais de port a disparue.Les frais de port annoncés correspondent à une moyenne. Ils seront calculés au plus juste en fonction du poids de votre article.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 6 Volumes in three. Small folio. Bound in quarter blue cloth and blue-gray boards, texts with complete photo facsimile of ca. 1840-1874 original edition, with 355 plates. Fine bindings and solid set. Light wear. Tanning to page ends. Faint owners name to top page end of Book I. Staining top top page end of Book II, only affecting the top page end. This is an oversized or heavy book that requires additional postage for international delivery outside of Canada and the US.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 4 volume set complete with 1 4to text volume and 3 elephant folio volumes. Text volume has boards and spine off. Boards and most of spine present. 3 large volumes have chips to spines and back boards are partly split. All volumes have scattered foxing more to fronts and rears. Some plates have none at all. Text volume has 770 pages +XXXI pages. The 3 folio volumes have 354 plates and are complete. Very heavy 70 lbs.…

Editions John Tiranti & Co., Architectural Publishers, The Scopas Series - sd - In-Folio, cartonnage avec dos toilé bleu - Sans pagination - Texte en anglais et français - Très nombreuses illustrations et plan en N&B Bon état malgré couverture légèrement défraîchie (frottements, ombragée, légères tâches) - Légères rousseurs intérieures - Un nom au stylo en pages de garde et de titre.…

Introductions to Volumes I & III by Arthur Broadbent. Totalling 354 plates, plus 66 pages of text, with figures, chronological lists (of Popes, principal architects who worked in Rome, and principal buildings of Rome), indices; cr. folio; qr. blue cloth over blue papered boards, lettered in black, with varying degrees of fading and minor wear & tear, spine extremities splitting Volume V; bookseller's sticker on upper pastedown Volumes II & V, a little light foxing and offsetting; John Tiranti & Co., London, [1928]. The Scopas series. *With the inked signature of Norman H. Seabrook (1906-1978) on the upper free endpaper of Volumes I-III (dated 1930 in Volume III). Seabrook designed MacRobertson Girls' High School, 'the first Australian example of the modern functionalist style of architecture developed by the Dutch architect Willem Dudok' [Australian Dictionary of Biography]. Loosely inserted in Volume V is an order form for another publication in the Scopas series. Originally issued in parts over several years from 1840 onwards, Paul Letarouilly's Edifices was a monumental collection of plans, elevations and details of the buildings of Renaissance Rome. 'No building of any architectural interest of the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries escape his pencil' [p. vi, Volume I]. …

LETAROUILLY, Paul. EDIFICES DE ROME MODERNE. Two volumes. Liege and Paris: D. Avanzo, 1843 and 1874. Folio. Quarter-morocco, boards. Frontispiece, (ii), plates 1-102;(ii), 2 pages, plates 115-231. Volumes I and II (of three) first published from 1840 to 1857. The plates were a much used source for Renaissance details and ideas. Letarouilly (1795-1855,) was a pupil of Percier who first traveled to Italy in 1820, where he began his sketches. Bindings heavily worn; edges of some plates thumbed; minor sporatic foxing.…