Paul Letarouilly's masterpiece, Edifices de Rome Moderne, has been hailed as the most beautiful book on Renaissance architecture ever published. Letarouilly devoted 35 years to drawing the plans, sections, elevations, perspectives, and large-scale details of gardens, convents, palaces, and churches of Renaissance Rome. His keen observational ability and immaculate drawing skills make this work an indispensable sourcebook. In many cases his etchings remain the only measured plans or elevations available; he also recorded buildings destroyed by later demolitions. Princeton Architectural Press's reprint contains all 354 plates and Letarouilly's Nolli Map of Rome, a 13 x 35 inch insert that took the artist five years to complete.
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This edition combines all three volumes published by Letarouilly in France in 1840 and contains 354 plates detailing the most notable buildings in Renaissance Rome. It is more for hardcore architecture collections, although it might be considered for art collections as well.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Very Good. Reprint. Reprint, later (7th) printing, hardcover with folded map laid in, the book has a strong lean to the binding, light bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, rubbing to the cloth, and a few smudges to the spine and edges of the text block. Overall, this is a solid, Very Good copy in a Near Very Good dust jacket, which has bumps with light creasing to the spine ends and corners, rubbing with subtle scuffing to the covers, a bit of wrinkling to the front, and slight wear to the edges. Seller Inventory # 215335
Seller: J. HOOD, BOOKSELLERS, ABAA/ILAB, Baldwin City, KS, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Size: 9.25x12.25 inches, 354plates., large map included. A Facsimile edition limited to 1000 copies. Text in French. Near new condition, covers bright, text clean and binding tight in a like dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 223101
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Reprint series. Hardcover volume, measuring approximately 9.5" x 12.5", is, bound in black cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine and front cover. Book and dust jacket are like new. Folded map, "Plan de Rome moderne," is laid in. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. 364 pages. Rare edition of this high-quality reprint, on 80-lb acid-free paper, of the original 3-volume work published between 1840 and 1866. "Paul Letarouilly's masterpiece, "Edifices de Rome Moderne," has been hailed as the most beautiful book on Renaissance architecture ever published. Letarouilly (1795 1855) devoted thirty-five years to drawing the plans, sections, elevations, perspectives, and large-scale details of gardens, convents, palaces, and churches of Renaissance Rome. His keen observational ability and immaculate drawing skills make this work an indispensable sourcebook. In many cases his etchings remain the only measured plans or elevations available; he also recorded buildings destroyed by later demolitions.". Seller Inventory # ABE-1764113511510
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