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OVERBEKE, Bonaventura Van.

Les restes de l'ancienne Rome,

recherchez avec soin, mesurez, dessinez sur les lieux.

Stock Code
88384
Pierre Gosse junior and Daniel Pinet, The Hague, Boucher & Gravier, Rome, 1763
£3,500

Overbeke had made several visits to Rome, where he had drawn and measured a number of the more important classical ruins. At his death he was still transforming these sketches into the engravings for a book and composing the Latin text; the work was completed by his nephew Michel.

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Description

Large folio (51.8 x 38.7cm.), 3 volumes in one, half-title, engraved frontispiece, titles printed in red and black with engraved vignette, engraved frontispiece to dedication, engraved portrait of the author by Vermeulen after Le Blon, double-page engraved map, engraved illustrations, woodcut initials, 146 engraved plates (46+50+50), one double-page.

[WITH] BARBAULT, Jean. Vues des Plus Beaux Restes des Antiquités Romaines telles quelles subsistent encore à Rome et en Divers Endroits de l'Italie... I (-II) cahier. Rome: Boucher & Gravier, 1770, 2 parts in one, titles printed in red and black, 30 engraved plates (15+15), without parts 3-5.

Together 5 parts in one volume, contemporary catspaw calf, gilt fillet border, spine gilt in compartments.

Bibliography

Graesse V, 66.

Stock ID:88384

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