Perrier - Statuen und Grouppen

Perrier, H.F. Illustrations of the most exquisite ancient statues and grotesques (!), which are partly in Rome and partly in Paris. At the expense of the publishers of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Vienna, Pichler, 1797. 2 w. Bll., title, 128 p., 1 leaf. With 1 engraved title. Title as frontispiece, 1 engraved title page. Title vign. and 61 copper plates by Blaschke, Mansfeld, Stöber and others after Perrier. 4°. Decorative paperback with rich reredos and cover (somewhat scuffed and bumped).- Graesse V, 207.- The engravings after Perrier were first published in Rome in 1638 under the title 'Icones et segmenta nobilium signorum et statuarum quae Romae extant'. Among the depicted antique sculptures Laocoon Group, Farnese Bull, Apollo Belvedere, Julius Caesar, Augustus, Castor and Pollux, Pluto, Neptune and others.- Occasional light (finger) spotting.