DELAFOSSE [sometimes De la Fosse], Jean-Charles (1734-1789). Nouvelle Iconologie Historique ou Attributs Hieroglyphiques. Amsterdam: C.S. Roos and Arend Fokke, n.d. but c. 1790. 2º (347 x 240mm). Bi-lingual text, French and Dutch, printed in two columns. Two engraved part titles, and 103 engraved plates by de Witt after Delafosse. (Small wormhole in the blank margin of the first two text leaves.) Contemporary Dutch half calf, flat spine in compartments with gilt roll tools, red morocco label (corners, edges and hinges rubbed).
DELAFOSSE [sometimes De la Fosse], Jean-Charles (1734-1789). Nouvelle Iconologie Historique ou Attributs Hieroglyphiques. Amsterdam: C.S. Roos and Arend Fokke, n.d. but c. 1790. 2º (347 x 240mm). Bi-lingual text, French and Dutch, printed in two columns. Two engraved part titles, and 103 engraved plates by de Witt after Delafosse. (Small wormhole in the blank margin of the first two text leaves.) Contemporary Dutch half calf, flat spine in compartments with gilt roll tools, red morocco label (corners, edges and hinges rubbed). The first edition with the plates re-engraved by Jan de Witt of Delafosse’s magnum opus. ‘The extraordinary emblematic compositions of Jean-Charles Delafosse combined the allegorical temper of the seventeenth century with a feeling for the deployment of large ornamental masses more characteristic of the fashion of his own age, neo-classicism’ (RIBA). First published in Paris in 1768. RIBA 833.
DELAFOSSE [sometimes De la Fosse], Jean-Charles (1734-1789). Nouvelle Iconologie Historique ou Attributs Hieroglyphiques. Amsterdam: C.S. Roos and Arend Fokke, n.d. but c. 1790. 2º (347 x 240mm). Bi-lingual text, French and Dutch, printed in two columns. Two engraved part titles, and 103 engraved plates by de Witt after Delafosse. (Small wormhole in the blank margin of the first two text leaves.) Contemporary Dutch half calf, flat spine in compartments with gilt roll tools, red morocco label (corners, edges and hinges rubbed).
DELAFOSSE [sometimes De la Fosse], Jean-Charles (1734-1789). Nouvelle Iconologie Historique ou Attributs Hieroglyphiques. Amsterdam: C.S. Roos and Arend Fokke, n.d. but c. 1790. 2º (347 x 240mm). Bi-lingual text, French and Dutch, printed in two columns. Two engraved part titles, and 103 engraved plates by de Witt after Delafosse. (Small wormhole in the blank margin of the first two text leaves.) Contemporary Dutch half calf, flat spine in compartments with gilt roll tools, red morocco label (corners, edges and hinges rubbed). The first edition with the plates re-engraved by Jan de Witt of Delafosse’s magnum opus. ‘The extraordinary emblematic compositions of Jean-Charles Delafosse combined the allegorical temper of the seventeenth century with a feeling for the deployment of large ornamental masses more characteristic of the fashion of his own age, neo-classicism’ (RIBA). First published in Paris in 1768. RIBA 833.
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