Architecture toscane : palais, maisons, eglises et autres edifices publics et prives principalement des 15e, 16e et 17e siecles + Recueil des plus beaux tombeaux : executes en Italie dans les 15e, 16e siecles : d'apres les dessins des plus celebres architectes et sculpteurs (2 volumes in 1)

2 volumes bound as 1. Tall folio. Bound in handsome modern 3/4 blue cloth of marbled boards. 50 p., 109 plates. Scattered foxing /staining throughout. The second book, Recueil des plus Beaux has 24 plates. The second volume, Recueil's gutters are dampstained. A view of Renaissance era Tuscany. Particular focus on the architecture / edifices of Florence. 133 plates total. After travels through Italy during which he sketched the local architecture, Auguste-Henri-Victor Grandjean de Montigny joined a French artistic mission to the Portuguese court in Brazil and eventually became acting director of the Royal Academy in Rio de Janeiro. This is an oversized or heavy book, that requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. Avery, p. 404; Graesse II, 550, citing 1st ed.