BRISEUX, Charles Etienne. Architecture moderne or l' art de bien bâtir. Paris: Claude Jombert, 1728. 5 parts in 2 volumes, 4° (284 x 213mm), engraved frontispiece in volume I, double-page title in volume II and 151 plates on 112 sheets, 14 by Aveline, Lucas and Scotin after Courtonne, many double-page and several folding (a few folding plates with very short tears at folds, a few leaves of text and margins of some plates lightly browned), contemporary vellum (covers slightly warped). FIRST EDITION. The title states that the work has 150 plates. There are, however, two plates numbered 131, one by itself and one sharing a folding plate with no.129. An enlarged second edition appeared in 1764. For the complicated collation of the plates, see Fowler pp.54 & 55.