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Les dix livres d'architecture de Vitruve : corrigez et traduits nouvellement en françois, avec des notes & des figures. / Par M. Perrault, de l'Academie.
Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia Oversize 1684 Vitruvius
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vitruvius Pollio
- Standardized Title:
- De architectura. French
- Language:
- French
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture--Early works to 1800.
- Architecture.
- Architecture--Orders--Early works to 1800.
- Physical Description:
- [18], 354, [16] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., plans ; 43 cm. (fol.)
- Edition:
- Seconde edition reveuë, corrigée, & augmentée.
- Place of Publication:
- A Paris, : Chez Jean Baptiste Coignard, imprimeur ordinaire du Roy, ruë S. Jacques, à la Bible d'Or., M. DC. LXXXIV. [1684]
- Notes:
- Dedication signed by the editor, Claude Perrault.
- Errors in pagination: p. 177-180, 203, 226, 227 and 341 misnumbered as 175, 179, 178, 178, 303, 216, 217 and 339 respectively.
- Engraved armorial vignette (royal arms of France) on t.p.
- Edition information appears above statement of responsibility on t.p.
- Engraved head- and tail-pieces and initials.
- With a frontispiece and [68] engraved plates included in pagination. Plates are numbered I-LXV with three more labeled **, ****, *****. The frontispiece engraved by Gérard Scotin after Sébastien Le Clerc, with other engravings by Pieter van der Banck, Gérard Edelinck, Etienne Gantrel, Jacques Grignon, Pierre Le Pautre, Jean Patigny, Nicolas Pitau and Georges Tournier.
- Signatures: pi² ã² ẽ² ĩ² õ² A-4Y² 4Z²(4Z2+1).
- Includes index on [16] p. at end.
- The first edition of Claude Perrault's complete translation of ''De architectura" was issued in 1673.
- Local Notes:
- Title is held at Carpenters' Hall in the Library of the Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia. Access to the books is restricted and available to researchers only by permission requested in advance.
- Carpenters' Company copy missing last leaf of index (p. [15]-[16] at end and p. 173-176; p. 69-72 misbound; accession number 3321; recorded in 1827 Carpenters' Company Library Catalogue as Folio 15.
- Cited in:
- British Architectural Library. Early printed books, 3513
- Brunet V, 1329
- OCLC:
- 225884357
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