Recueil de cent cinquante Paysages et Marines Ornées de Figures et Ruines

Composés, Dessinés et Gravés Par Pérelle. Paris, Basan, n.d. (second half 18th century), with engraved title and 150 numbered, engraved illustrations on 94 leaves, modern half leather in antique style, folio (good copy with minimal defects).

Contains the following series of large prints on one leaf: 24 round engravings (17-21 cm. in diameter); 6 prints of ca. 10 x 25 cm.; 8 prints of ca. 15 x 23 cm.; 12 prints of ca. 21 x 18 cm.; 6 prints of ca. 31 x 18 cm.; and 2 prints of ca. 29 x 40 cm. (double-page). Furthermore 18 round prints (ca. 12 cm. in diameter) on 9 leaves and 60 prints in various rectangular sizes on 20 leaves, 10 prints (ca. 13 x 21 cm.) on 5 leaves on another 4 prints (ca. 10 x 21 cm.) on 2 leaves. However, our copy has EXTRA prints: at the end two unnumbered double-page prints (ca. 28 x 40 cm.) and at the beginning a series of 30 numbered round prints, 18 of which with a diameter of ca. 13 cm. on 9 plates and 12 with a diameter of ca. 8 cm. on 2 leaves. All in all an extraordinary and very rare collection of prints by Adam Pérelle (1638-1695) and according to some sources also by Gabriel Pérelle (1603-1677) and Nicolas Pérelle (1631-1695). Here as reissued by Pierre Fraçois Basan (1723-1797). Only several copies traced in libraries (incl. Paris and Royal Academy of Arts Library).