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Auction archive: Lot number 580

[Old Books 17th-19th Century] [Artist's manuals. Architecture] Méthode graphique et géometrique

Auction 25
23 Jun 2021, 19:00 - 25 Jun 2021
Opening
€80
ca. US$97
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 580

[Old Books 17th-19th Century] [Artist's manuals. Architecture] Méthode graphique et géometrique

Auction 25
23 Jun 2021, 19:00 - 25 Jun 2021
Opening
€80
ca. US$97
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

appliquee aux arts du dessin, ou Études préliminaires des élèves architectes et entrepreneurs (...). Par Thierry Fils, architecte-graveur, éditeur du Fignole de poche. Paris, printed by Imprimerie de Fain for the author/ Carilian-Goeury, 1832 (with the names of another 10 booksellers on verso of title), (4),104 p., with engraved frontispiece ("Théorie et pratique") and 48 (fold.) plates, the sixth part ("Des cinq ordres d'architecture") with its own engr. frontispiece, contemp boards w. gilt-lettered spine, oblong narrow 4to (16 x 24 cm).
Fold. plates w. tears; sl. foxed/ browned throughout (mostly along edges). Lacks first free endpaper; paper over spine dam. and outer corners worn. Acceptable copy, with old blind stamp of "Debray Architecte Vérificateur" (Paris) in the title p., and with loosely inserted presentation card with text "De la part et avec les compliments de Jacques Chirac, mère de Paris". A very rare artist's manual in first edition. PiCarta lists only a single copy of the second edition, published in 1846.

Auction archive: Lot number 580
Auction:
Datum:
23 Jun 2021, 19:00 - 25 Jun 2021
Auction house:
Zwiggelaar Auctions
Witte de Withstraat 32 hs
1057 XZ Amsterdam
Netherlands
zwiggelaarauctions@gmail.com
+31 (0)6 47986138
Beschreibung:

appliquee aux arts du dessin, ou Études préliminaires des élèves architectes et entrepreneurs (...). Par Thierry Fils, architecte-graveur, éditeur du Fignole de poche. Paris, printed by Imprimerie de Fain for the author/ Carilian-Goeury, 1832 (with the names of another 10 booksellers on verso of title), (4),104 p., with engraved frontispiece ("Théorie et pratique") and 48 (fold.) plates, the sixth part ("Des cinq ordres d'architecture") with its own engr. frontispiece, contemp boards w. gilt-lettered spine, oblong narrow 4to (16 x 24 cm).
Fold. plates w. tears; sl. foxed/ browned throughout (mostly along edges). Lacks first free endpaper; paper over spine dam. and outer corners worn. Acceptable copy, with old blind stamp of "Debray Architecte Vérificateur" (Paris) in the title p., and with loosely inserted presentation card with text "De la part et avec les compliments de Jacques Chirac, mère de Paris". A very rare artist's manual in first edition. PiCarta lists only a single copy of the second edition, published in 1846.

Auction archive: Lot number 580
Auction:
Datum:
23 Jun 2021, 19:00 - 25 Jun 2021
Auction house:
Zwiggelaar Auctions
Witte de Withstraat 32 hs
1057 XZ Amsterdam
Netherlands
zwiggelaarauctions@gmail.com
+31 (0)6 47986138
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