178 - James STUART and Nicholas REVETT. The Antiquities of Athens, Measured and Drawn by J. Stuart and N. Revett, Painters and Architects… Paris, Firmin Didot, then Bance, 1808–1822. 4 volumes in 2 folio volumes, brown half-calf, spine with 6 decorated raised bands (pastiche binding). 800/1,200

James STUART and Nicholas REVETT. The Antiquities of Athens, Measured and Drawn by J. Stuart and N. Revett, Painters and Architects… Paris, Firmin Didot, then Bance, 1808–1822. 4 volumes in 2 folio volumes, brown half-calf, spine with 6 decorated raised bands (pastiche binding). 800/1,200 Avery, 994 / Barbier, V-570 /// I. XIII-75-(1f.), 36 plates / II. (2f.)-60-(1f.), 49 plates / III. (2f.)-89-(1f.), 54 plates / IV. X-11 to 78-(1f.), 52 plates Medallion portraits of Stuart on the title page of the first volume and of Nevett on the title page of the fourth volume, and 191 plates, including 8 double-page plates and 33 on bluish paper in the third volume. Originally published in English in London between 1761 and 1816; published here for the first time in French by C.P. Landon, translated by Laurent-François Feuillet. Flecks of rust.