[Architecture] VITRUVIUS, Marcus Pollio Les dix livres d'architecture [...]. Corrigez et traduits nouvellement en françois, avec des notes et des figures. Paris, J.B. Coignard, Folio: [front. incl.]-325-[pp. (marg. spotting, some foxing). 19th-c. half sheep, marbled paper covers, spine with raised bands (leather rubbed). First French translation of Vitruvius' famous work on architecture with commentaries by Claude Perrault (1613-1688). Illustrated with a frontispiece, numb. engr. plates (full-page, double-page and 2 in-text) by J. Grignon, G. Tournier, G. Edelinck, etc. depicting caryatids, plans, elevations, views of buildings, orders, etc., numerous woodcuts in-text, 2 engr. headpieces, 2 initials and one endpiece. Ref. Fowler - Cp. Berlin Kat. - Cp. Cicognara - Not in Goldsmith (BL London). Prov. Marcel Bertrand (bookpl., with a modern ms. note mentionning the book was sold on his library sale by Miette in 1936). - Mod. bookpl.
[Architecture] VITRUVIUS, Marcus Pollio Les dix livres d'architecture [...]. Corrigez et traduits nouvellement en françois, avec des notes et des figures. Paris, J.B. Coignard, Folio: [front. incl.]-325-[pp. (marg. spotting, some foxing). 19th-c. half sheep, marbled paper covers, spine with raised bands (leather rubbed). First French translation of Vitruvius' famous work on architecture with commentaries by Claude Perrault (1613-1688). Illustrated with a frontispiece, numb. engr. plates (full-page, double-page and 2 in-text) by J. Grignon, G. Tournier, G. Edelinck, etc. depicting caryatids, plans, elevations, views of buildings, orders, etc., numerous woodcuts in-text, 2 engr. headpieces, 2 initials and one endpiece. Ref. Fowler - Cp. Berlin Kat. - Cp. Cicognara - Not in Goldsmith (BL London). Prov. Marcel Bertrand (bookpl., with a modern ms. note mentionning the book was sold on his library sale by Miette in 1936). - Mod. bookpl.
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