Delagardette, C.-M.

Les Ruines de Paestum ou Posidonia, Ancienne Ville de la Grande Grèce

Paris: A la Librairie d'Architecture de Bance Ainé, 1840. Large folio (21.5" x 14"), [1]-26 [2] + 14 plates, one double-page. Paper covered boards in imitation of tree calf. Binding rubbed, leather spine perished, but the boards remain firmly attached; lightly foxed. Good. Item #022215

"This is one of the best works on Paestum, and one to which numerous important architects subscribed. Delagardette went there in 1793 to make the detailed drawings and elevations." --Sotheby's. Borroni 7191.2; citations for the first edition of 1799: Avery p.552, Sotheby's Blackmer sale #545, Brunet III.766, Cicognara 2669, Graesse III, p. 26.

Price: $550.00