Piranesi Franciscus Ruins De Pestum volume 15

Title: Piranesi Franciscus Ruins De Pestum volume 15
Description: Condition: fair. Some damage to the cover, millboard cracked (top right corner) edges bumped, cover die rubbed. Pages foxed though not too badly, several ilustration plates missing
Identifier: RB.0046
Creator: Piranesi, Giovanni Battista
Language: Latin
Publisher: Tessier, Paris; 1800-1807
Date: 1800-1807
Subject: rare book; special collections; books
Source: bookplate indicates "Tessier" (possibly early Firmin didot) printed in the 1820's (probably, possibly earlier, 1804?) although previous cataloguing indicates 1804 (could not substantiate this though) Tessier was the bookbinder to the french natinal treasury at the turn of the 19th century. Second bookplate indicates endowment to the "academy" by "gen. john armstrong"
Medium: books