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Architecture - [Pollio (Marcus Vitruvius)], Les Dix Livres d'Architecture de Vitruve, Corrigez et Tradvits nouvellement en François, avec des Notes & de Figures, Seconde Edition reveuë, corrigée, & augmentée, Par M. Perrault de l'Academie Royalle des Sciences, Docteur en Medecine de la Faculté de Paris, Chez Jean Baptiste Coignard, Imprimeur ordinaire du Roy, rue S. Jacques, à la Bible d'or, Paris 1684, lacking some pages and with some further erroneous pagination, full-page allegorical & additional title-page engraved by Gérard Jean Baptiste Scotin (fl. c. 1684) after Sébastien Le Clerc (1637 - 1714), the text illustrated throughout with varying double, full and half-page architectural elevations, diagrams and further engravings, further geometrical and engineering diagrams within text, allegorical sub-title headers in places, full contemporary speckled calf, lettered spine, gilt embossed foliate reserves within raised bands, marbled paper endpapers (recto lacking one splice), medium folio