Volume 8 Differens Ouvrages d'Architecture

Title: Volume 8 Differens Ouvrages d'Architecture
Description: Condition: fair. Front cover worn, Joints worn. corners bumped. Edges worn. First 2 illustration plate have been cut out of the volume. One of the pages is torn, Otherwise pages are in good condition
Identifier: RB.0230
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