44 magnificient double-page plates from Rome, 1763

Jean Barbault:

Les plus beaux edifices de Rome moderne, ou Recueil des plus belles vues des principales Eglises, Places, Palais, Fontaines &c. […] Dessinées par Jean Barbault peintre […] et gravées en 44. grandes planches et plusieurs vignettes. […] Avec la description historique de chaque edifice.

A Rome, chez Bouchard et Gravier, 1763. Large folio. (55 x 42,5 cms.) [6] + 72 pages of text + 44 double-page engraved plates. With engraved illustrations in text.

Uncut in original marbled boards, very worn & spine perished. Occasional marginal tears to head and foot of some plates along centre fold, and a few creases. Long tear in lower margin of one leaf of text (pp. 23/24), faint grease stain to lower margin of one plate (San Paolo fuori le mura), and plate 10 (Chiesa di San Sebastiano) with damage to lower centre affecting printed image.

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