SUYS (Jean Tilman François) - HAUDEBOURT (Louis Pierre) Palais Massimi à Rome, plans, sections, elevations, profiles, vaults, ceilings, etc. des deux palais Massimi Paris: Normand fils, Gury, Besnard, Didot, [1818]. In-folio, green half calf, cold-rolled spine, spotted edges (period binding). First edition of this sought-after album providing for the first time a detailed plan of the two Massimi palaces in Rome, built between 1532 and 1536 by the architect and engineer Baldassare Peruzzi (1481-1536). The work begins with a "Notice sur la vie et les œuvres de B. Peruzzi" (Notice on the life and works of B. Peruzzi), accompanied by an engraving in the text entitled "Vue d'une cour de l'ancien palais" (View of a courtyard of the former palace). It also contains a portrait of Peruzzi, engraved by Dien and Thierry, and 43 line-engraved plates, based on drawings by architects Jean Tilman François Suys (1783-1861) and Louis Pierre Haudebourt (1788-1849), pupils of Charles Percier. At the end is an explanation of the plates, illustrated with an attractive headband depicting antique fragments from the Massimi palace. A fine copy, with decorations on the spine. Provenance: M. Jarrier, architect, with ex-libris stamp repeated several times.