Cours d'architecture, ou Traité de la décoration, distribution et construction des bâtiments; contenant les leçons données en 1750, & les années suivantes, par J.F. Blondel [...].

8 vol., 8vo. Text, 5 (of 6) vol.: iii/xxxiv-478-[1], [2]-lxiv-468-[4], [4]-cii-[2]-460, [2]-cxiii-[3]-431-[1], xxxii-504 pp. (vol. VI and half title of vol. I missing; some foxing, some ff. sl. toned in vol. I). - Plates, 3 vol.; 374 (of 377) pl. (pl. 40-41-42 in vol. II missing; some pl. or margins of pl. soiled, tear without loss in pl. CXI in vol. III).

Contemp. marbled calf, gilt orn. spines with raised bands, red edges (rubbed, lack of leather to front covers of vol. I & III of text, some joints splitting, lacks to some heads or tails).

First edition of the lessons taught by the French architect Blondel (1705-1774), Professor to the Academy of Architecture and contributor to the Encyclopédie. The vol. V and VI (missing here) were written by the engraver and architect Pierre Patte (1723-1814). Illustrated with 374 plates, some fold. or on double-page (incl. the 40bis in pt. III and 39bis in pt. IV).
Ref. Berlin Kat. 2429. - Conlon 71:703 (= NUC). - Not in Cicognara.
Prov. Merlin, architect (ms. entry dated 1774). - J.-B. Mottrie, 1831 (id.). - Ms. mentions of price. - Poissoniez, bookseller and binder in Mons, Belgium (label).
Joined: Aviler, Auguste-Charles d' - Cours d'architecture qui comprend les ordres de Vignole, avec des commentaires, les figures & les descriptions de ses plus beaux bâtimens, & ceux de Michel-Ange [...]. Nouvelle édition, enrichie de nouvelles planches [...] et d'un grand nombre de remarques, par Pierre-Jean Mariette. Paris, Ch.-Ant. Jombert, 1760. 4to (sl. soiled). Contemp. calf (joints partly split, corners bumped). Illustrated with a front. and 162 pl. (n.c.) of which half folding. Prov. Jules Olivier, 1855, Liège (ms. entry). - L. Cellot, bookseller in Paris (bookpl.). - Mod. bookpl. (9 vol.)