PERCIER (Charles) - FONTAINE (Pierre François Léonard). Recueil de décorations intérieures, including everything related to furnishings, such as vases, tripods, candelabras, cassolettes, chandeliers, girandoles, lamps, candlesticks, fireplaces, stoves, clocks, tables, secretaries, beds, sofas, armchairs, chairs, stools, mirrors, screens, etc. etc. etc. Paris: les auteurs, Didot l'aîné, 1812. -In-folio, half dark green basane, smooth spine (period binding). Revised and enlarged second edition, illustrated with a vignette at the head of the "Preliminary Discourse" and 72 line-engraved plates based on drawings by the two architects Percier and Fontaine. The original, published in 1801, contained only 48 plates. Spine of binding missing. Smudging on bottom of leaves. Foxing and soiling.
Estimate
€300 - €400
Result
Not sold
Buyer's premium
26%
PERCIER (Charles) - FONTAINE (Pierre François Léonard).
Recueil de décorations intérieures, including everything related to furnishings, such as vases, tripods, candelabras, cassolettes, chandeliers, girandoles, lamps, candlesticks, fireplaces, stoves, clocks, tables, secretaries, beds, sofas, armchairs, chairs, stools, mirrors, screens, etc. etc. etc.
Paris: les auteurs, Didot l'aîné, 1812. -In-folio, half dark green basane, smooth spine (period binding).
Revised and enlarged second edition, illustrated with a vignette at the head of the "Preliminary Discourse" and 72 line-engraved plates based on drawings by the two architects Percier and Fontaine.
The original, published in 1801, contained only 48 plates.
Spine of binding missing. Smudging on bottom of leaves. Foxing and soiling.
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