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ANDROUET DU CERCEAU, Jacques (1510-1584). Livre d'Architecture... Contenant les Plans & Dessaigns de cinquante Bastimens tous differens. Paris: Benoist Prevost, 1559. 69 engraved plates (plates XIII, XXII, XXIII, XXVIII, XXXIV, XXXIX and XL in the earlier state without integral plate numbers). (The first and last three plates with small tears or holes, just affecting the engraved area in two cases, about six other plates with browning.) First French edition, published the same year as the Latin edition of the Premier Livre d'Architecture. Mortimer, Harvard French 22; cf. Fowler 21.
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Alessandro FRANCINI (d.1648) Livre D'Architecture Contenant Plusieurs Portiques De Differentes Inventions, sur les cinq ordres de Colomnes. Paris: Melchior Tavernier, 1631. Engraved portrait of Francini and 39 plates, extra-illustrated with an unsigned folding plate of a triumphal arch dedicated to and incorporating a bust of Cardinal Mazarin. (Some plates shaved into engraved area, three shaved with slight loss to image.) FIRST EDITION. Fowler 126.
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Sebastiano SERLIO (1475-1554). Extraordinario Libro di Architettura. Venice: Giovanni Battista & Marchione Sessa, 1557. 48 engraved plates only (of 50, lacking numbers XIX and XX). (One plate with repaired 300mm. tear.) First Sessa edition. Cf. Mortimer, Harvard French 475.
3 works in one volume. 2° (398 x 260mm). 18th-century mottled calf gilt (neat repairs to head and foot of spine). Provenance: Herbert Viscount Windsor and Baron Mountjoy (armorial bookplate).
A fine collection of architectural works, the last two on door- and entranceways. The second work contains some particularly exuberant examples (Fowler: 'a handsome folio of entrance designs in questionable taste').
[Bound with:]
Alessandro FRANCINI (d.1648) Livre D'Architecture Contenant Plusieurs Portiques De Differentes Inventions, sur les cinq ordres de Colomnes. Paris: Melchior Tavernier, 1631. Engraved portrait of Francini and 39 plates, extra-illustrated with an unsigned folding plate of a triumphal arch dedicated to and incorporating a bust of Cardinal Mazarin. (Some plates shaved into engraved area, three shaved with slight loss to image.) FIRST EDITION. Fowler 126.
[Bound with:]
Sebastiano SERLIO (1475-1554). Extraordinario Libro di Architettura. Venice: Giovanni Battista & Marchione Sessa, 1557. 48 engraved plates only (of 50, lacking numbers XIX and XX). (One plate with repaired 300mm. tear.) First Sessa edition. Cf. Mortimer, Harvard French 475.
3 works in one volume. 2° (398 x 260mm). 18th-century mottled calf gilt (neat repairs to head and foot of spine). Provenance: Herbert Viscount Windsor and Baron Mountjoy (armorial bookplate).
A fine collection of architectural works, the last two on door- and entranceways. The second work contains some particularly exuberant examples (Fowler: 'a handsome folio of entrance designs in questionable taste').