Les dix livres d'architecture [...]. Corrigez et traduits nouvellement en françois, avec des notes et des figures.

Folio: [20 front. incl.]-325-[17] pp. (marg. spotting, some foxing).

19th-c. half sheep, marbled paper covers, spine with raised bands (leather rubbed).

First French translation of Vitruvius' famous work on architecture with commentaries by Claude Perrault (1613-1688). Illustrated with a frontispiece, 65 numb. engr. pl. (50 full-page, 13 double-page and 2 in-text) by J. Grignon, G. Tournier, G. Edelinck, etc. depicting caryatids, plans, elevations, views of buildings, orders, etc., numerous woodcuts in-text, 2 engr. headpieces, 2 initials and one endpiece.
Ref. Fowler 418. - Cp. Berlin Kat. 1818 and Cicognara 727. - Not in Goldsmith (BL London).
Prov. Marcel Bertrand (bookpl., with a modern ms. note mentionning the book was sold at his library sale by Miette in 1936). - Mod. bookpl.