Details

Subject(s)

• Architecture—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Architecture—Orders—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Scamozzi, Vincenzo 1548-1616 [Browse]

Translator

• Aviler, Augustin-Charles d', 1653-1701 [Browse]

Engraver

• Huret, Grégoire, 1606-1670 [Browse]

Printer

• Jombert, Charles-Antoine, 1712-1784 [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Mottled calf bindings (Binding)—18th century [Browse]
• Marbled papers (Binding)—18th century [Browse]
• Shelf marks (Provenance)—18th century [Browse]

Series

Bibliothèque portative d'architecture ; ptie 3

Notes

• Previously published at Leiden (Pierre van der Aa), 1713.
• Series statement from Approbation, p. xxxj.
• The [62] leaves of plates represent 82 numbered plates, 37 of them printed on one side, 21 on both sides, two of them double page (tipped onto stubs at centerfold).
• Frontispiece signed by the engraver Grégoire Huret (1606-1670), present title and imprint added.
• Preceded by a life of the author (p. xix-xxix)
• Woodcut title vignette, tail-pieces.
• Signatures: a-d⁴ A-2G⁴.
• Errata, p. xxx-xxxi.
• Instructions for binding plates, p. xxxii.

Binding note

SAX copy: Bound in contemporary mottled calf, gold tooled spine, red morocco title label, red stained page edges, marbled endpapers.

Provenance

SAX copy: Library shelf label on front pastedown.

Place name(s)

France Paris.

Other title(s)

Œuvres d'architecture

OCLC

63642646

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