Emeric-David - Recherches sur l'Art Statuaire - 1805

Original edition of this important essay by art critic Toussaint-Bernard Emeric-David (1755–1839) on sculpture, particularly dedicated to the study of statues present at the Musée Napoleon through which to understand the causes of the perfection of ancient sculpture. See Cicognara, no. 276; Barbier IV, col. 28.

Toussaint-Bernard Emeric-David, Recherches sur l'art statuaire considéré chez les anciens et chez les modernes, ou mémoire sur cette question proposée par l'Institut National de France..., Paris, chez la veuve Nyon Ainé, 1805.

PP.: XIV, (II), 544. COMPLETE.

Copy still in paper state and in sheets, partly untrimmed, with leaves in overall very good condition.

Contemporary binding in half parchment with title and gold tooling on the spine, very well preserved. Blank endsheets.