Robert Wood Les ruines de Balbec autrement dite Heliopolis dans la Coelosyrie. London 1757
Large folio, title page, 28 pages of text, 46 engravings some of them folded showing antiques of Balbec. Half calf modern binding. first french edition published the same year of the English ed. Robert Wood is one of the authors which introduced the knowledge of the classical ruins and joint with Le Roy and Robert Adams forms the core of publication that developed the neoclassical taste laterly complemented with Stuart and Revett book.
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