PERRIER, François Segmenta nobilium signorum et... Lot 17

PERRIER, François Segmenta nobilium signorum et statuarum, quæ temporis dentem invidium evasere Urbis æternæ ruinis erepta Roma Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi [1638] Ref. Robert-Dumesnil, VI, 176, nos. 41-141; Berlin Kat., no. 4202; Cicognara, no. 3538 (ed. 1638); Brunet, IV, 512 (id.) Folio, a magnificent suite of 49 (out of 100) plates of antique statues drawn and engraved on copper by François Perrier (1590-1650), known as le Bourguignon, a painter and engraver from the Franche-Comté region, during his second stay in Rome. These plates, of which the last one is folding. Prints of a good edition, without margins. The first two prints of the suite were published in Rome in 1638 and 1653; they were followed by at least three Parisian prints