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Greece - [WILKINS (William)] & HITTORFF (Jacques-Ignace). Les Antiquités inédites de l'Attique, contenant les restes d'architecture d'Eleusis, de Rhamnus, de Sunium et de Thoricus, par la Société des Dilettanti; ouvrage traduit de l'anglais, augmenté de notes et de plusieurs dessins (...) Paris, Imprimerie de Firmin Didot frères, 1832. In-folio, xi-[3]-63 pp. of text, [1] f. table, a few figures in the text and 60 line-engraved plates. Red half-sheepskin with corners, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets (period binding). Covers dull, a few brown spots. This is the only French translation of The Unedited antiquities of Attica, published in 1817 by archaeologist and architect William Wilkins at a London address. This original included no fewer than 84 plates. In the French edition, the plates were created by Hittorff (1792-1867), then a young architect in favor with the government of Louis-Philippe and the city of Paris, where his achievements would leave their mark on the face of the capital (Saint-Vincent-de-Paul church, town halls in the present-day 5th and 1st arrondissements, Cirque d'hiver, Gare du Nord, etc.). It goes without saying that the two men behind this album had both completed, albeit at very different times, their "tours" of Greece or Magna Graecia, considered a must for future architects. (Brunet V, 570-571.)

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Greece - [WILKINS (William)] & HITTORFF (Jacques-Ignace). Les Antiquités inédites de l'Attique, contenant les restes d'architecture d'Eleusis, de Rhamnus, de Sunium et de Thoricus, par la Société des Dilettanti; ouvrage traduit de l'anglais, augmenté de notes et de plusieurs dessins (...) Paris, Imprimerie de Firmin Didot frères, 1832. In-folio, xi-[3]-63 pp. of text, [1] f. table, a few figures in the text and 60 line-engraved plates. Red half-sheepskin with corners, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets (period binding). Covers dull, a few brown spots. This is the only French translation of The Unedited antiquities of Attica, published in 1817 by archaeologist and architect William Wilkins at a London address. This original included no fewer than 84 plates. In the French edition, the plates were created by Hittorff (1792-1867), then a young architect in favor with the government of Louis-Philippe and the city of Paris, where his achievements would leave their mark on the face of the capital (Saint-Vincent-de-Paul church, town halls in the present-day 5th and 1st arrondissements, Cirque d'hiver, Gare du Nord, etc.). It goes without saying that the two men behind this album had both completed, albeit at very different times, their "tours" of Greece or Magna Graecia, considered a must for future architects. (Brunet V, 570-571.)

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