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AVILER, Augustin Charles d' (1653-1700). Cours d'Architecture ... Nouvelle edition ... Paris: Jean Mariette, 1738.
4° (269 x 206mm). Engraved frontispiece, 79 plates (58 folding), 85 illustrations (83 full-page, one pasted over an alternative image). (Old dampstaining, b2 torn, the pasted down illustration on Zii recto slightly detached.) Contemporary mottled calf (worn). Provenance: JOHN ADAM (architect, elder brother of Robert and James, armorial bookplate, pencilled note recording the books purchase 'at the sale of the [Adam] family Library').
4° (269 x 206mm). Engraved frontispiece, 79 plates (58 folding), 85 illustrations (83 full-page, one pasted over an alternative image). (Old dampstaining, b2 torn, the pasted down illustration on Zii recto slightly detached.) Contemporary mottled calf (worn). Provenance: JOHN ADAM (architect, elder brother of Robert and James, armorial bookplate, pencilled note recording the books purchase 'at the sale of the [Adam] family Library').