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AVILER, Augustin Charles d' (1653-1700). Cours d'Architecture qui comprend les Ordres de Vignole... & de ceux de Michel-Ange. Paris: Nicolas Langlois, 1691.
2 volumes, 4° (213 x 154mm). Two engraved frontispieces, 30 folding plates only (of 31, lacking plate numbered 63A), 86 illustrations (84 full-page), one headpiece and one initial. (Plate 63A never bound in, plate 64A cut in half by the binder with some loss.) Contemporary English speckled calf gilt, spines in six compartments with raised bands, lettering-piece in one compartment, elephant crest in others (joints slightly tender) Provenance: Sir Andrew Fountaine. FIRST EDITION. Fowler 32; Berlin Kat. 2388. (2)
2 volumes, 4° (213 x 154mm). Two engraved frontispieces, 30 folding plates only (of 31, lacking plate numbered 63A), 86 illustrations (84 full-page), one headpiece and one initial. (Plate 63A never bound in, plate 64A cut in half by the binder with some loss.) Contemporary English speckled calf gilt, spines in six compartments with raised bands, lettering-piece in one compartment, elephant crest in others (joints slightly tender) Provenance: Sir Andrew Fountaine. FIRST EDITION. Fowler 32; Berlin Kat. 2388. (2)