Architecture Classic “…Best work of its kind yet issued…”
Cours d’Architecture, qui comprend les ordres de Vignole avec des Commentaires, les figures & Descriptions de ses plus beaux Bâtimens, & de ceux de MICHEL-ANGE…& tout ce qui regarde L’Art de Bâtir….
Hague: Pierre Gosse & Jean Neaulme, 1730.
Price: $1,250.00
About the item
Nouvelle et Troisième Edition. Plates and text within a double-ruled border. Engraved title-page to volume I + 84 full-page engraved plates (included in pagination and in plate numeration] + 31 folding engraved plates (not included in pagination, but given plate number]; volume II, with Le Blond’s Supplement, 25 folding engraved plates, and engraved title-page to “Tome seconde”. Vol. I: pp. [1-80, including engraved t.p.], i-xii, 1-355; Vol. II: (Supplement) pp. 1-76; (Dictionnaire d’Architecture), pp. [i-viii, including engraved t.p.], 1-259. 2 vols. Small 4to. Contemporary quarter calf and boards, black leather spine labels. Upper joint of volume II splitting but sound, plates and text fine and clean. Fowler, pp. 24-27 (1691 & 1710 editions); Berlin Catalogue 2388 (1691 ed.), 2389 (1696 ed.), 2390 (1750 ed.).
Item #316173
