Quatremère de Quincy, Antoine (1755-1849) "Encyclopédie méth - Lot 474

Quatremère de Quincy, Antoine (1755-1849) "Encyclopédie méthodique. Architecture. 3 Tomes, par M. Quatremere de Quincy, dédiée et présentée a monseigneur de Lamoignon, garde des sceaux de France" - 1788-1825 A Paris, chez Panckoucke, libraire, hôtel de Thou, rue des Poitevins. In Liège, chez Plomteux, imprimeur des Etats. M. DCC. LXXXVIII. Avec approbation, et privilège du Roi - A Paris, chez Henri Agasse, imprimeur-libraire, rue des Poitevins, n° 18. An IX. - A Paris, chez Mme veuve Agasse, imprimeur-libraire, rue des Poitevins, n° 6. M. DCCCXXV Tome I (1788) - Avertissement (pages I to VIII), Errata (page VIII), ABAJOUR à COL (pages 1 to 720) Tome II (1801) - COLOSSAL à MUTULES (pages 1 to 744) Tome III (1825) - Avis [à propos des planches inexistantes], NACELLE à ZOTHECA (pages 1 to 664) Period bindings in poor condition - Inside clean with scattered freckling. Antoine Chrysostome Quatremère, known as Quatremère de Quincy, born in Paris on October 28, 1755, and died in Paris on December 28, 1849, was a French architect, archaeologist, philosopher, art critic and politician. He was the second son of François Bernard Quatremère de l'Épine, a prominent merchant who had received letters of nobility in 1780, and brother of Quatremère Disjonval. He was educated at the Collège Louis-le-Grand, where he distinguished himself by his keen interest in the arts. Destined for the bar, he preferred to devote his youth to in-depth research into architecture and sculpture. In 1776, he travelled to Rome, visited Italy and spent some time in Naples, during which time he gathered material for his Dictionnaire d'architecture, the first volume of which was not published until 1788. Related to the Italian Antonio Canova, the French Percier, Fontaine, Clérisseau and the statuary Pierre Julien, in 1785 he was laureate of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres for his dissertation on the question: "What was the state of Egyptian architecture, and what did the Greeks borrow from it? This success led Charles-Joseph Panckoucke to entrust him with the editing of the Architecture volume of the Encyclopédie méthodique, which appeared from 1795 to 1825. He had also made a name for himself as an archaeologist. Source: Wikipedia