TEATRO MUNICIPAL DO RIO DE JANEIRO - Lot 167

TEATRO MUNICIPAL DO RIO DE JANEIRO Rio de Janeiro, Ediçao da Photo Musso, 1913. 320 x 250 mm, 136 pp. full publisher's brick percaline, embossed escutcheon on front board, gilt title, gilt endpapers with cold motifs. Frontispiece portrait of the architect, 45 full-page illustrations, most of them photographic, vignettes and culs-de-lamp, Portuguese and French text, printed in red and black. Luxurious monograph of this neoclassical building by Brazilian architect Francisco de Oliveira Passos, completed in 1913, describing the history of the project, interior and exterior, sculptures, library, decorations, ceilings, mosaics, friezes, stage curtain, restaurant, fountains, machinery, dressing rooms, bathroom, ventilation, electrical equipment. First edition, fine copy. (102526)