PERELLE. Engraved suite. Views of the most beautiful houses - Lot 173

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PERELLE. Engraved suite. Views of the most beautiful houses - Lot 173
PERELLE. Engraved suite. Views of the most beautiful houses in France. [With]. The squares, gates, fountains, churches, and houses of Paris. [With]. Views of the most beautiful places in Versailles. A Paris, chez N. Langlois, (ca. XVIIIe). Small oblong folio (28 x 36 cm), 241 black copper-engraved plates, including 3 titles. Slightly later speckled fawn-colored basane, ornate ribbed spine, havana title-piece, ornate caissons, triple gilt fillet framing the boards, gilt roulette on the spine covers (binding rubbed, bindings and hinges cracked, marginal defects including foxing spots, a few restorations mainly in the margins sometimes reaching the engravings, stain on the view of the Paris Observatory). Important suite of 241 black copper engravings by Pérelle, printed by N. Langlois. It consists of three parts, each opening with an engraved title, the first with 18 views of different parts of Paris. The second with 75 views of squares, gates, fountains, churches and houses in Paris, and the third with 146 views of Versailles. Views of the Tivoli Fountain and the Colosseum in Rome are bound in fine. A total of 241 plates.
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