Cours Darchitecture Comprend Ordres Vignole by Davilier (1 results)

Leather. Condition: Good Only. Not Stated (illustrator). The seventeenth century architect Augustin-Charles d'Aviler's richly illustrated architectural study, published in the same year as the first edition. In the original French.With the illustrated first part but lacks the unillustrated volume of definitions that follows.A very scarce copy of Augustin-Charles d'Aviler's beautifully illustrated architectural work. With this volume published in the same year as the first edition, by a different publisher, but retaining the first edition publisher to the engraved title page.Illustrated with thirty-one folding and double page plates, and eighty-three plates, including an engraved title page. Collated, complete.With the armorial bookplate 'Beauchamp' to the front pastedown.A beautifully engraved study of late seventeenth century French architecture, with an alphabetical order of architectural terms, and descriptions of beautiful buildings. Rebacked, in a full calf binding, with original boards restored, and endpapers renewed. Front board detached. Rear joint starting to head and tail, with board holding firm. Armorial bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Inscription to head of title page. Pages generally clean and bright, with tide marks to tail of a significant number of leaves at centre of text block. Good Only. book.