Les soirées de Rome dédiées a Mde Le Comte des Académies de S. Luc de Rome, des sciences et arts de Bologne, Florence &c. Suite de dix planches dessinées et gravées par Mr Robert, pensionnaire du Roi de France à Rome by ROBERT, Hubert (1733 - 1808)

[Paris: after 1765]. Complete set of ten etchings, including title, each plate 135 x 98 mm, each with narrow margins, hinged at left sheet edge into album, plate 8 with some staining and minor defects, otherwise in very good condition. Modern gilt-lettered red morocco binding, edges gilt. Bartsch 1-10; Benezit IX:3; Cohen-de-Ricci 896 ("Recueil fort rare publié en souvenir du voyage à Rome de Watelet et de Marguerite Leconte"). Provenance: Ploos van Amstel(?) "P" (small collector's stamp [Lugt 2064] on lower margins, cropped); the additional plate signed and dated "Ernst Decaule(?) 1862" on verso; from the Collection of Arthur & Charlotte Vershbow, purchased from Librairie Rossignol, 1982. THE COMPLETE SET OF TEN ETCHINGS WITH AN ADDITIONAL IMPRESSION OF PLATE 6 WITH TOUCHES OF WATERCOLOR, POSSIBLY BY THE ARTIST.