CARBURIS, Marin (d.1782, Count). Monument élévé à la gloire de Pierre-le-Grand, ou, Relation des travaux et des moyens mechaniques qui ont été employés pour transporter à Pétersburg un Rocher... destiné à servir de base à la Statue équestre de cet Empereur. Paris: Stoupe and Nyon aîné, 1777. 2° (425 x 280mm). 12 engraved plates, 6 double-page, 6 folding, by d'Elvaux and Sellier after Blarenbergh. (Some browning, particularly to the last two plates.) Contemporary French red morocco gilt, covers with triple fillet border, and the centrally-placed ARMS OF KING VICTOR AMADEUS III OF SARDINIA, spine in seven compartments with raised bands, lettered in one, the others with repeat decoration in gilt, gilt turn-ins, g.e., modern box. Provenance : King Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia (1726-1797, binding). A very fine royal presentation copy, in a Parisian binding. Carburis (or Carburi as he is styled on the title), having been appointed lieutenant-colonel of engineers by the empress Catherine, accomplished the moving of a colossal granite monolith by land and sea into its position as the base for Falconet's equestrian statue in St.Petersburg. The final section of the work is a physical and chemical analysis of the monolith by Carburis's brother Jean-Baptiste, comte Carburis. Jean-Baptiste was, at the time of the publication of this work, physician by appointment to the French royal family, having accompanied Victor-Amadeus's third daughter, Marie-Thérèse de Savoie, when she came to France to marry Charles-Philippe, comte d'Artois (in 1773). Given these circumstances, it seems likely that this copy was presented by Jean-Baptiste Carburis (rather than his brother) to his former employer and the father of his patroness. Berlin Kat . 1794.
CARBURIS, Marin (d.1782, Count). Monument élévé à la gloire de Pierre-le-Grand, ou, Relation des travaux et des moyens mechaniques qui ont été employés pour transporter à Pétersburg un Rocher... destiné à servir de base à la Statue équestre de cet Empereur. Paris: Stoupe and Nyon aîné, 1777. 2° (425 x 280mm). 12 engraved plates, 6 double-page, 6 folding, by d'Elvaux and Sellier after Blarenbergh. (Some browning, particularly to the last two plates.) Contemporary French red morocco gilt, covers with triple fillet border, and the centrally-placed ARMS OF KING VICTOR AMADEUS III OF SARDINIA, spine in seven compartments with raised bands, lettered in one, the others with repeat decoration in gilt, gilt turn-ins, g.e., modern box. Provenance : King Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia (1726-1797, binding). A very fine royal presentation copy, in a Parisian binding. Carburis (or Carburi as he is styled on the title), having been appointed lieutenant-colonel of engineers by the empress Catherine, accomplished the moving of a colossal granite monolith by land and sea into its position as the base for Falconet's equestrian statue in St.Petersburg. The final section of the work is a physical and chemical analysis of the monolith by Carburis's brother Jean-Baptiste, comte Carburis. Jean-Baptiste was, at the time of the publication of this work, physician by appointment to the French royal family, having accompanied Victor-Amadeus's third daughter, Marie-Thérèse de Savoie, when she came to France to marry Charles-Philippe, comte d'Artois (in 1773). Given these circumstances, it seems likely that this copy was presented by Jean-Baptiste Carburis (rather than his brother) to his former employer and the father of his patroness. Berlin Kat . 1794.
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