Allais (Louis-Jean), Athanase Détournelle & Antoine-Laurent-Thomas Vandoyer, engravers and publishers. Projets d'Architecture et autres productions de cet art, qui ont mérités les Grands Prix accordés par l'Académie, par l'Institut National de France, et par des Jurys du choix des Artistes ou du Gouvernement, second series, on Papier grand Colombier d'Hollande, (watermarked Van der Ley), title with French nationalistic wood-engraved ornament, fine engraved additional pictorial title and 120 plates (520 x 358mm.), all ff. numbered in pencil in top right-hand corner, otherwise generally clean and crisp, with occasional light spotting or finger-marking, contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, richly gilt spine with architectural instruments motifs, small stars and foliage decorations, along with a large red morocco label, some fading to marbled boards, corners neatly restored with green vellum, rubbed, folio (binding 534 x 380mm.), Paris, Détournelle & J. Charles 1806. ⁂ A very good copy of this scarce collection of the second series of prize-winning architectural designs. Includes fountains, aqueducts, lighthouses, prisons, gardens, and triumphal arches and columns.
Allais (Louis-Jean), Athanase Détournelle & Antoine-Laurent-Thomas Vandoyer, engravers and publishers. Projets d'Architecture et autres productions de cet art, qui ont mérités les Grands Prix accordés par l'Académie, par l'Institut National de France, et par des Jurys du choix des Artistes ou du Gouvernement, second series, on Papier grand Colombier d'Hollande, (watermarked Van der Ley), title with French nationalistic wood-engraved ornament, fine engraved additional pictorial title and 120 plates (520 x 358mm.), all ff. numbered in pencil in top right-hand corner, otherwise generally clean and crisp, with occasional light spotting or finger-marking, contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, richly gilt spine with architectural instruments motifs, small stars and foliage decorations, along with a large red morocco label, some fading to marbled boards, corners neatly restored with green vellum, rubbed, folio (binding 534 x 380mm.), Paris, Détournelle & J. Charles 1806. ⁂ A very good copy of this scarce collection of the second series of prize-winning architectural designs. Includes fountains, aqueducts, lighthouses, prisons, gardens, and triumphal arches and columns.
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