(BERKENHOUT, John) || (DRUMONT, Gabriel-Pierre Ed.)

London, et se trouve a Paris, Rue Dauphine, chez Charles-Antoine Jombert et chez l’Auteur des Gravures, 1769. Folio. (4),+ 11,+ (blank),+ 20 pp.+ extra engr. page with advertisments,+ 17 engr. plates, of which 10 are double page,+ double page folding map. Slight foxing and spotting. Contemporary half calf, worn gilt spine with raised bands and red label, defective at head and tail, blue marbled boards, worn corners, red edges. Garcia 1560, note. Not in Furchheim. Blackmer 1065, note. First rare French translation of Berkenhout’s work on Paestum, ”The Ruines of Paestum”, published in English in 1767 (with only 4 plates). The other plates are added by Drumond. The French editor Gabriel-Pierre Drumont was professor of architecture and had taken part in marquis de Marigny’s important journey in 1749-51 together with Jacques Germain Soufflot and Cochin, and which took him to Paestum already in 1750. He had published some plates from the journey in 1764. After the publishing of Thomas Major’s large book on Paestum in 1768, both in French and English, Drumont here took the opportunity to publish his plates once again, partly re-engraved, together with Berkenhout’s text in a French translation by Jacques de Varennes. The extra engraved page contains advertisments for other works by Drumont. According to the preface the work is intended as a supplement to Major’s work, and it is dedicated to marquis de Marigny.There are two double page plates with three motifs from Herculaneum, one plan of the forum, one profile of a catacomb and one ”Partie d’un plan d’un grand monument” excavated in 1750. The Forum here is the same building that Cochin and Bellicard call ”Basilica”.