Oeuvres d’Architecture de Marie-Joseph Peyre, Architecte, ancien Pensionnaire du Roi à Rome, Inspecteur des Bâtimens de Sa Majesté

PEYRE, MARIE-JOSEPH

Price: $175.00

Paris: Chez Parault, Chez Jombert, 1765 [Farmborough: Gregg Press Ltd., 1967], Facsimile reprint of Peyre’s drawings showing his "...research on ancient architecture that he accomplished while in Rome and his interpretations of this architecture in several of his early Paris projects." (Wiebenson, French Books p. 404). One of the major sources of the neoclassical movement.Text in French. (Millard Architectural Collection French Books 140 [for the 1795 Second edition], Avery’s Choice 120) Facsimile reprint. 47 cm; 33 pp.; 19 engraved plates on 18 full-page sheets, most folding. Owner’s name; a VG copy in blue buckram. (Item ID: 012410)

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