Les edifices antiques de Rome. dessinés et mesurés tres exactement par Antoin Desgodetz [...].
Antoine Babuty Desgodets (1653-1728) [architecte du roi]
Category
Books
Date
1682
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3196604
Summary
Bibliographic description
[12],323,[1]p., plate. ill..(metal cuts). fol. Some annotations. Provenance: With a price of "quator louis d'or" and a note in French signed C. Hornby, Nov. 20th 1722: "Ce copie pour le beautè [sic] des estampesquie se trouvent yci dans leur derniere perfection vaut bien quatre de la plus partdes ceux qui courent dans le monde". Provenance: eighteenth-century armorial bookplate, lettered: William Windham Esquire [i.e. William Windham (1717-1761)]. Inscribed on titlepage: "F. Dampier"; in another hand "Caijart [?] 16972; also "P. & M. S. 1694" followed by an illegible signature. Binding: full sprinkled calf, sewn onto seven raised bands; double gold fillets; gold-tooled and lettered direct onto spine: Antiques de Rome, upper board detached.
Makers and roles
Antoine Babuty Desgodets (1653-1728) [architecte du roi], artist