De L'Orme, Philibert. Nouvelles inventions pour bien bastir et a petits fraiz trouvees n'agueres par Philibert De l'Orme Lyonnais Architecte Conseiller et Aulmonier ordinaire du feu Roy Henry & Abbe de S. Eloy Lez Noyon. Paris: Jérôme de Marnef and Guillaume Cavellat, 1576 [bound with:]
Boillot, Joseph. Nouveaux pourtraitz et figures de terms pour user en l'architecture: composez & enrichiz de diversite d'animaulx, representez au vray, selon l'antipathie et contrarieté naturalle de chacun d'iceulx. Langres: Jehan des Preyz, [1592]
The woodcuts used in this third edition of de L'Orme's Nouvelles inventions are the same blocks that were designed for the first edition in 1561 (see lot 501).
First edition of Boillot's Nouveaux pourtraitz, which provides examples of animals being used as architectural supports, in the place of human supports such as caryatids, which were considered to represent enslaved people. Boillot mixes real and mythological creatures, which he organises by size and strength - where larger animals are more suited to placement on the ground floor, as they are more able to support the weight of the building. Each animal is depicted alongside their natural cause of annoyance; the elephant is depicted alongside a rat, and the tiger is surrounded by drums and tambourines.
"The most elaborate work from the press of des Preyz" (Mortimer, p.140).
Folio (324 x 204 mm). (i) Roman type, 47 lines plus headline. collation: A-H6 I8: 55 leaves (of 56, lacking final blank). Title within woodcut border, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, woodcut portrait of Philibert de L'Orme, 34 woodcut illustrations and diagrams, of which 22 are full page. (ii) Roman type. collation: +6 A-H6 I8: 72 leaves. Title within engraved border, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, 16 full-page woodcut illustrations, 39 full-page engraved illustrations, engraved portrait of Boillot, engraved device on final verso. (Lightly foxed, occasional staining.)
binding: Early eighteenth-century French speckled calf (330 x 212 mm), spine gilt in compartments, red morocco label, red speckled edges. (Binding slightly stained and scraped, corners bumped, small tears to ends of spine.)
provenance: Gabriel Leliepure Baumons, architect, of Redon (active in the early eighteenth century), inscriptions throughout. acquisition: Purchased in 2011 from Librairie Paul Jammes, Paris. references: (i) Mortimer, Harvard French 357; cf. BAL RIBA 1954 (1561 edition); (ii) Mortimer, Harvard French 108; Rép. bibl. xvie siècle, 69 (Langres), des Preyz 7
De L'Orme, Philibert. Nouvelles inventions pour bien bastir et a petits fraiz trouvees n'agueres par Philibert De l'Orme Lyonnais Architecte Conseiller et Aulmonier ordinaire du feu Roy Henry & Abbe de S. Eloy Lez Noyon. Paris: Jérôme de Marnef and Guillaume Cavellat, 1576 [bound with:]
Boillot, Joseph. Nouveaux pourtraitz et figures de terms pour user en l'architecture: composez & enrichiz de diversite d'animaulx, representez au vray, selon l'antipathie et contrarieté naturalle de chacun d'iceulx. Langres: Jehan des Preyz, [1592]
The woodcuts used in this third edition of de L'Orme's Nouvelles inventions are the same blocks that were designed for the first edition in 1561 (see lot 501).
First edition of Boillot's Nouveaux pourtraitz, which provides examples of animals being used as architectural supports, in the place of human supports such as caryatids, which were considered to represent enslaved people. Boillot mixes real and mythological creatures, which he organises by size and strength - where larger animals are more suited to placement on the ground floor, as they are more able to support the weight of the building. Each animal is depicted alongside their natural cause of annoyance; the elephant is depicted alongside a rat, and the tiger is surrounded by drums and tambourines.
"The most elaborate work from the press of des Preyz" (Mortimer, p.140).
Folio (324 x 204 mm). (i) Roman type, 47 lines plus headline. collation: A-H6 I8: 55 leaves (of 56, lacking final blank). Title within woodcut border, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, woodcut portrait of Philibert de L'Orme, 34 woodcut illustrations and diagrams, of which 22 are full page. (ii) Roman type. collation: +6 A-H6 I8: 72 leaves. Title within engraved border, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, 16 full-page woodcut illustrations, 39 full-page engraved illustrations, engraved portrait of Boillot, engraved device on final verso. (Lightly foxed, occasional staining.)
binding: Early eighteenth-century French speckled calf (330 x 212 mm), spine gilt in compartments, red morocco label, red speckled edges. (Binding slightly stained and scraped, corners bumped, small tears to ends of spine.)
provenance: Gabriel Leliepure Baumons, architect, of Redon (active in the early eighteenth century), inscriptions throughout. acquisition: Purchased in 2011 from Librairie Paul Jammes, Paris. references: (i) Mortimer, Harvard French 357; cf. BAL RIBA 1954 (1561 edition); (ii) Mortimer, Harvard French 108; Rép. bibl. xvie siècle, 69 (Langres), des Preyz 7
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