ZEILLER (Jacques) - SPALATO. The Palace of Diocletian. Surveys and restorations by Ernest Hébrard. Preface by Charles Diehl, appendix by Gustave Jéquier. Paris, Ch. Massin Editeur, 1912. Gr. in-folio, contemporary binding, brown half-maroquin with corners, ribbed spine, gilt title, gilt head, covers; VIII-234 pp. 236 figs, plans, sketches, b/w in-t. photogr. reproductions, 17 plates in heliogravure, many with double pp. or fold-outs, sepia or color, bibliographical index. Handwritten letter from Jacques Zeiller to André Pératé (1862-1947), French art historian, specialist in Italian literature and curator of the Musée de Versailles. A dark stain on the spine and 1st board, slight wetness in the margins of qq. pp. and pl., otherwise a fine copy. A lavishly produced and lavishly illustrated monograph on the palace of the Roman emperor Diocletian in Split, Croatia. The book's documentation, based not only on original surveys but also on personal explorations and excavations, is meticulous and abundant. Superb heliogravure plates, whose models won Mr. Hébrard a medal of honor at the 1910 Salon, show the current state of the ruins and present a reconstruction of their various aspects and buildings.