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libri di pregio e manoscritti - firenze 27 aprile 2012
Le Petit Marot
99.
Marot Jean
Recueil des plans profils et elevations des plusieurs palais,
chasteaux, églises, sepultures, grotes et hostels, bâtis dans
Paris et aux environs avec beaucoup de magnificence [...]
desseignez, mesurez, et grauez par...
A Paris: chez Mariette,
[1660].
In-4° (mm 276x211). Carte [1], 114: frontespizio e 114
tavole incise. Bellissimo esemplare. Legatura francese
originale in vitello con decorazione in oro al dorso.
Prima edizione (?), prima del numero. Fowler, 193: «This
work is known as the ‘Petit Marot’. The date of publication
has not been definitely established and the number of
plates varies in most copies [...] the first edition contained
from 112-115 plates»; ICCU collaziona 122 tavole e
rimanda a Millard,
French
, pagina 118: «The
Petit Marot
[...] is the earliest of the great series of volumes illustrating
French architecture which appeared in the seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries [...] [it] is a basic document of
the architecture (mainly residential) of the generation of
Francois Mansart and Louis Le Vau. In it are illustrated a
number of buildings of which no other record survives»;
Cicognara 555; Mauban,
Marot
, pp. 99-107.
€ 1800