Neal Auction 2012

W denotes the lot is illustrated at www.nealauction.com 27 85. George Taylor and Edward Cresy , The Architectural Antiquities of Rome; Measured and Delineated... , 1821-1822, published by the authors, Holborn, folios, two volumes (21 in. x 14 in.), three-quarter leather, with raised bands, bound by Worrall, Birmingham (one spine replaced), with 128 plates (of 130), many fold- out, including map, complete with text. $800/1200 86. Auguste Racinet , L’Ornement Polychrome, Cent Planches en Couleurs, Or et Argent , c. 1880, 3rd ed., Firmin-Didot, Paris, folio (16 in. x 11 1/2 in.), title page, preface, index, 60 pgs. text, 100 chromolithographs, loose as issued, original boards (spine broken); together with Aime Chenavard Album de l’Ornemaniste Recueil d’Ornements... , 1845, Lenoir, Paris, folio (18 1/4 in. x 12 1/4 in.), paper boards, title page, preface, index, 72 engravings. $600/900 87. [Architecture] , A Monograph of the Work of McKim, Mead & White, 1879-1915 , c. 1914, The Architectural Book Publishing Co., New York, Vol. III (lacking 6 plates) and Vol. IV (lacking 8 plates), loose as issued in original portfolios, with 186 photographic plates and plans, together with another 50 plates from earlier volumes, plates size 20 in. x 14 in. $600/900 88. Charles Percier & Pierre Francois Leonard Fontaine , Recueil de Decorations Interieures, Comprenant Tout ce qui a Rapport a l’Ameublement , 1812, folio (18 in. x 12 in.), printed by Didot, Paris, second edition, half-title, titlepage, introduction with vignette (19 pgs.), title page from 1801 ed., 72 plates, and 43 pgs. text, old boards, Fowler 244. $800/1200 Note: This lot represents the second and best edition of a work that is considered an important influence on the development of the Empire style in America. 85 (detail) 87 88 86 (detail)