POCHINI, Antonio - Lot 125

POCHINI, Antonio I Monumenti delle Belle Arti nella Città di Parigi. Epistole in versi Paris, Firmin Didot, 1809 VERY FINE EMBLEMATIC BINDING BY LEFEBVRE, NEPHEW AND COLLABORATOR OF BOZERIAN L'AÎNÉ, WHOSE SPINE IS DECORATED WITH IRONS DEPICTING STATUES. FRONTISPIECE ENGRAVED BY SAINT-AUBIN. A MORTIMER SCHIFF THEN ROBERT ABDY COPY. MISSING GETTY ORIGINAL EDITION In-8 (217 x 139 mm). Text in Italian. COLLATION: 1-98 102: (2) ff. 147-(1) pp. 150 copies in in-8 format, this one numbered 126. CONTENTS: Le Statue antiche del Museo Napoleone. Epistola al Cavalier Ippolito Pindemonte (pp. 1-25), I Quadri del Museo Napoleone. Epistola all'egregia dama Arpalice Pappafava (pp. 27-75), I Monumenti francesi del Museo de' Petits-Augustins. Epistola al Commendatore Melchior Cesarotti (pp. 77-110), Gli edifizi e i giardini. Epistola all'ornatissimo signor Gaetano Pinali (pp. 111-147). ILLUSTRATION: frontispiece engraved by Saint-Aubin after J. G. Salvage, depicting the Laocoon group. CONTEMPORARY BINDING SIGNED BY LEFEBVRE. Long-grained red morocco, gilt decoration, friezes and fillets framing the boards, long spine decorated with a lyre and gilt statues, green tabis lining and endpapers, gilt edges. PROVENANCE: Mortimer L. Schiff (1877-1931; bookplate; New York, III, 1938, no. 2105, spine of binding reproduced pl. 82) -- Sir Robert Abdy (1896-1976; bookplate; not in his sale). Light scattered foxing. Antonio Pochini (1786-1829), a nobleman from Padua, was editor of the Giornale veneto de religione e di morale. His verse epistles evoke the antique statues and paintings of the Musée Napoléon, the Musée des Monuments français (created during the Revolution in the buildings and chapel of the Petits-Augustins convent) and several buildings and gardens, whose history is detailed in a note at the end of each of the four parts. BIBLIOGRAPHY : Fléty, p. 108