Cours d’Architecture qui comprend les ordres de Vignole, Avec des Commentaires, les Fgures & Descriptions de ses plus beaux Bâtimens, & de ceux de MICHEL-ANGE…& tout ce qui regarde L’Art de Bâtir….

Paris: Nicolas Langlois, ruë Saint Jacques, 1696.

Price: $1,500.00


About the item

Second edition. With 2 engraved frontispieces, 31 folding plates, and 84 full-page engraved illustrations. [78], xii, 356; [vi], 260 pp. 4to. Bound in full contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine. Provenance: A.C. Lascarides Ham House Ham Common (typographic label). Berlin 2389; cf. Millard 14 & Fowler pp. 24-5.

Item #316174

Of the first edition (1691), Fowler wrote, "from the point of view of the practical architect this Cours d'architecture was the best work of its kind yet issued"