[Rarebooks] FS: One of Didot's great folios. "Le Jupiter Olympien" 1st ed., 1st issue. Paris: 1814. 1/160

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(ART) Quatremere de Quincy, Antoine C. LE JUPITER OLYMPIEN, ou, 'Art de la Sculpture Antique Considere Sous un Nouveau Point de Vue... Un Essai sur le Gout de la Sculpture Polychrome... Paris: Fermin Didot. 1814. Tall folio (19-1/2"). (2),xxv,(1),458pp. plus 32 plates (frontispiece plus 31 numbered plates in the text) of which 20 are hand colored. With the half-title. Original red paper covered boards (cartonnage rouge). Black morocco spine label. Hinges a bit rubbed, and occasional light foxing, but a beautiful copy.    $6,000.00 (trade discount allowed)
This is the first issue with the 1814 title; the second has an 1815 dated title. An important study of ancient Greek sculpture, specifically those idols composed of or adorned with gold & ivory, 500-430 B.C. A magnificent work printed in an edition of only 160 copies (150 on paper and 10 on vellum). See Blackmer 1367 and the Blackmer sale catalog #934, with a color plate at p. 410; Cicognara 285; Brunet IV, 1003 ("un executien magnifique"); Graesse V, 520.

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