Lot n° 274
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PALLADIO. Andrea. - Lot 274
PALLADIO. Andrea.
The Four Books of Architecture.
Paris. Edme Martin. 1650. 1 volume in-folio, modern imitation brown calf, ribbed spine
decorated.
One of the most important architectural books of the classical West.
First edition of the first French translation of books I to IV, by Roland Fréart de
Chambray.
Extensive wood-engraved illustrations in the text: framing repeated four times (on the title
approximately 220 compositions in the text, 163 of which are full-page.
A good copy; traces of marginal wetness on the first and last leaves.
Handwritten bookplate of architect Charles-Henri Landon - 1815, a pupil of Percier.
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