Architecture pratique [...]. Édition nouvelle, revûe & corrigée avec soin [...].

Paris, J.-T. Hérissant, 1762

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Lot description

8vo: front.-xxx-622-[2] pp.; 15 pl. (some soiling, mostly marg., in quire a, some dampst. in last quires, occ. spotting).

Contemp. mottled sheep, gilt-orn. spine, red edges (head and tail missing, corners bumped, some rubbing).

Practical treatise (1st 1691) on details of a building from a business point of view (the cost and measurement, etc.) by the French architect Bullet (1639-1716). Ill. with a front., 13 pl., 2 fold. tables and numerous in-text woordcuts.
Ref. Berlin Kat. 2542 (mentions 12 pl. and 2 tables). - Cp. Cicognara 456 and Fowler 72 (1st ed.).
Prov. Mod. bookpl.