Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Wood, Robert, 1717?-1771
Title:
Les ruines de Balbec, autrement dite Heliopolis dans la Coelosyrie.
Alternate Title(s):
Ruins of Balbec. French.
Published / Created:
A Londres : [publisher not identified], MDCCLVII [1757]
Physical Description:
[2], 28 pages, XLVI leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations ; 55 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio A 2014 55
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Text signed: Robert Wood.

Engravings by Pierre Fourdrinier and Thomas Major; after drawings by Giovanni Battista Borra.

Also issued in the same year in English.

Includes bibliographical references.

British Architectural Library. Early printed books, 1478-1840, page 244

Harris, E. British architectural books and writers, 937

BAC: British Art Center copy bound in contemporary red gilt-tooled morocco.
Subject Terms:
Architecture, Roman -- Lebanon -- Baʻlabakk. | Architecture -- Lebanon -- Baʻlabakk. | Decoration and ornament, Architectural -- Lebanon -- Baʻlabakk. | Baʻlabakk (Lebanon) -- Antiquities.
Form/Genre:
Engravings -- 1757.
Contributors:
Wood, Robert, 1717?-1771. | Borra, Giovanni Battista, 1713–1770, illustrator. | Fourdrinier, Paul, 1698–1758, engraver. | Major, Thomas, 1720–1799, engraver.