Lot n° 345
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1800 - 2000
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VITRUVE. - Lot 345
VITRUVE.
Les Dix livres d'architecture.
A Paris. chez Jean Baptiste Coignard. 1673. 1 volume in-folio, brown grained calf, spine rebacked with nerves
spine.
First edition of the French translation by Claude Perrault, with commentary.
Copper-engraved illustrations, 70 engravings, including: a title-frontispiece, 65 large compositions
in the text and 4 bandeaux and lettrines and approx. 80 woodcut vignettes in the text.
The bifeuillets with double-page copper engravings have been mounted on tabs.
Angular traces of wetness, larger on the leaves of the first third of the volume, scattered foxing and stains
a few later notes in pencil.
Ex-libris monogram in ink "JG".
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