Press kit produced to accompany the exhibition "The Mediterranean Approach" held at the Palazzo Zenobio, Venice, during the 54th Venice Biennale, June 1-September 18, 2011
"This is a rare example of a printed book containing the suites of illustrations created by the Martinet enterprise at the end of the 1760s. A team of artists created six illustrations for a projected series of luxury editions of opéras-comiques,...
"10 collotype plates with illustrations from photographs of fossils, more than one to a page, two plates folding. The plates are by M.D. Santos, or J. Leipold, Portugal."--Hanson Collection catalog, p. 85
Three volumes paged continuously. "Bibliographie": v. 3, [565]-567. t. 3. Rest of title: Description détaillée des sujets figurés dans les planches. Table analytique. Table méthodique
At head of title: Musées royaux du cinquantenaire, Parc de Cinquantenaire à Bruxelles. First edition has title: Collection d'anciennes étoffes réunies de décrites par madame Isabelle Errera. Catalogue... Bruxelles, Falk fils, 1901....
Gosudarstvennaia Oruzheinaia palata (Russia); Kremlin (Moscow, Russia); Art -- Russia (Federation) -- Moscow; Architecture -- Russia (Federation) -- Moscow; Christian art and symbolism
At head of title: G. K. Loukomksi. Issued in portfolio
