Cours d'architecture enseigné dans l'Académie royale d'architecture. Première [- Seconde et troisième, - Quatrième, cinquième et dernière] partie. Seconde édition, augmentée & corrigée.

Paris, by the author; Amsterdam, P. Mortier, 1698

€ 200 / 300

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3 parts in 1 vol., folio: [26 incl. front.]-152-[4], [14 incl. front.]-312, [10 incl. front.]-313/628-[2]-629/799-[7] pp.; 1 pl. (cancel pasted on p. 386 of 3rd part, marg. dampst. in quire 9M-N, occ. spotting).

Contemp. mottled sheep, gilt-orn. spine with raised bands, sp. edges (joints starting to split, head and tail partly missing, boards sl. rubbed, corners bumped).

Second, augmented ed. (1st 1675-1683) of the most famous work of Blondel (1618-1686). Ill. by de La Boissière and Broebes with 3 different front., 1 double-page pl., 25 full-page pl. within collation (numb. I-XXIV, 1 not numb.) in the first part, more than 250 in-text pl. (some almost full-page) and engr. and woodcut head- and tailpieces.
Ref. Fowler 47. - Cicognara 434. - STCN. - Cp. Berlin Kat. 2382 (1st ed.).
Prov. Mod. bookpl.