FREART, Roland, Sieur de Chambray (ca 1606-1676). Parallele de l'architecture antique et de la moderne. Paris: Pierre Emery et al, 1702.
FREART, Roland, Sieur de Chambray (ca 1606-1676). Parallele de l'architecture antique et de la moderne. Paris: Pierre Emery et al, 1702.

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FREART, Roland, Sieur de Chambray (ca 1606-1676). Parallele de l'architecture antique et de la moderne. Paris: Pierre Emery et al, 1702.

2o (439 x 287 mm). Avertissement and privilege leaves. Engraved title (loose), title and 33 text vignettes, 44 full-page illustrations and 10 double-page plates (one plate with hole within image, IIT ink stamp in margin of one plate, some occasional pale spotting, a few small stains). Contemporary calf (covers detached, worn). Provenance: Illinois Institute of Technology (inkstamp on title).

Later edition of this book first issued in 1650. This edition includes four more illustrations than the original. The plates and full-page illustrations are after Charles Errard. Cicognara 510; Fowler 129; cf Millard 76 (first edition).

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