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Charles Edouard ISABELLE, Les Édifices circulaires...

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Charles Edouard ISABELLE, Les Édifices circulaires et les dômes, classés par ordre chronologique et considérés sous le rapport de leur disposition, de leur construction et de leur décoration. Paris, Firmin Didot frères, [1843] 1855 1 vol. in-plano: one delivery cover mounted on flyleaf, faux-titre, title, iij p - 152 p., 3 fig, and 82 pl. num. 1-78, including 6 pl. bis (3bis, 7bis, 14bis, 17 bis, 23 bis, 73 bis) and 3 pl. counting double (pl. 40,41, 54-55 and 59-60), i.e. 72 pl. on steel, 3 lithographs and 7 chromolithographs (pl. 3, 17, 36, 37, 51, 52, 63, Engelmann and Graf). This original monograph was published from 1843 to 1855). Marginal notes in German in the text in pencil, rare foxing in the text. Most plates in very good condition, a few with stains and foxing. Rough restoration to pl. 71-73bis. Provenance: library of the Berlin Architects' Association (Architekten-Verein, stamp and exit stamp): preserved invoice from the sale by the Architects' Association in 1909.