Benoist, Philippe , and Felix Benoist. Rome dans... Lot 63

Benoist, Philippe , and Felix Benoist. Rome dans sa grandeur. Vues, monuments anciens et modernes. Paris, Charpentier, 1870. In 2nd (488 x 335 mm). Eyelet and frontispiece printed in red and black with steel-engraved vignette in each volume, 28 full-page hand-colored lithographic plates in the first, 34 in the second and 38 in the third volume (some blooming, slight halo to the outer margin of the first volume.) Editorial binding in green half-morocco constemma of Pope Pius IXs on front plate, gilt threading to plates, friezes and title in gold to spine (small defects). Ex libris by Renato Mammucari. Wonderful collection of "Rome antique, Rome chrétienne, Rome moderne" with beautiful views, landscapes, buildings and Roman monuments, engraved by Felix and Philippe Benoist from drawings by leading French artists of the time. (3)