L'art de bâtir chez les Romains par Auguste Choisy ...

Auguste Choisy

RA Collection: Book

Record number

13/620

Author

Imprint

Paris :: Librairie générale de l'architecture et des travaux publics Ducher et Cie, éditeurs,, 1873.

Physical Description

[6], 216, [4], 2, [2] p., XXIV engr. pl. (3 double-page) : 99 ill. ; 42 cm.

General Note

The plates show axonometric projections demonstrating the construction of ancient Roman buildings, including the Pantheon, Domus Flavia ('Palatin'), and the Baths of Agrippa, Caracalla and Diocletian.
In portfolio.

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical footnotes.

Provenance

Purchased in 1884.

Binding Note

Publisher's cloth-backed portfolio with title-page repeated on upper cover; portfolio rebacked, archival board insert, new printed spine-label (1996).

Subject

Building, Rome.
Architecture, Roman.

Contributors

Ducher et Cie, publisher