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Sayer, Robert.
Estimate
2,500 - 3,500 GBP
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Description
- Ruins of Athens, with remains and other valuable antiquities in Greece. London: Robert Sayer, 1759
first edition, folio (570 x 375mm.), 27 engraved plates, modern half calf over original boards, edges of a few leaves reinforced, occasional minor soiling, frontispiece somewhat offset onto title, boards slightly rubbed and soiled
Provenance
R.P. Cotton, May 26 1781, inscription on lower paste-down
Literature
not in Blackmer; Contominas 646; Harris, British Architectural Books and Writers 1556-1785, 493
Catalogue Note
an uncommon work. This is an adaptation of Le Roy's Ruines des plus beaux monumens de la Grèce, Paris, 1758 (see lot 130), with the plates re-engraved.