Recueil. D'architecture nouvelle [...].

Oblong 4to: engr. title and 102 pl. (sl. foxing on title and occ. on last pl., marg. soiling to pl. 101, some pl. bound upside down). Nice inside condition.

Contemp. cardboard (rubbed, lack of paper to spine).

First edition of this work by Athanase Détournelle (1766-1807), architect, draughstman and publisher. Illustrated with an engr. title and complete with 102 plates (copper-engr.), depicting various plans of columns, triumphal arches, houses and fountains in honour of the French0 Louis Charles Antoine Desaix (1768-1800), a general and military leader during the French Revolutionary Wars and under the command of Napoleon (i.a. in Egypt and Italy). Captions with the name of the architect who proposed the project.
Ref. Not in Cicognara, Kat. Berlin, Fowler.