PALLADIO, Andrea. Traicté des cinq Ordres d'Architecture desquels se sont seruy les Anciens. Traduit de Palladio, augmenté de nouvelles inventions pour l'art de bien bastir par le Sr. Le Muet, Paris: chez F. Langlois dit Chartres, 1645, 2 parts in one volume, small 4° (176 x 128mm.), FIRST EDITION, all engraved, additional engraved title to each part, text and plates within double fillet border (final leaf of part 1 misbound after additional engraved title to part 2, part 2 possibly lacking one leaf in quire M), contemporary vellum with yapp edges, manuscript title to spine. [Berlin Katalog 2595; Cicognara 573; Fowler 216]

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PALLADIO, Andrea. Traicté des cinq Ordres d'Architecture desquels se sont seruy les Anciens. Traduit de Palladio, augmenté de nouvelles inventions pour l'art de bien bastir par le Sr. Le Muet, Paris: chez F. Langlois dit Chartres, 1645, 2 parts in one volume, small 4° (176 x 128mm.), FIRST EDITION, all engraved, additional engraved title to each part, text and plates within double fillet border (final leaf of part 1 misbound after additional engraved title to part 2, part 2 possibly lacking one leaf in quire M), contemporary vellum with yapp edges, manuscript title to spine. [Berlin Katalog 2595; Cicognara 573; Fowler 216]

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The second part of the work, with additional engraved title by Gregoire Huret, contains Le Muet's L'Art de bien Bastir. Quire M in part 2 consists partly of plates, partly of text beginning on M3 (p. 167). Fowler calls for 8 leaves in the quire, our copy contains only 7. However, there is no clear indication that any plates are lacking, while the page numbering is continuous. Fowler calls for 16 pages of plates, numbered 1-15, between pp. 166-167; our copy has the 16 pages, though the final plate is blank with a border only and not numbered, so the plates are, in fact, only numbered up to 14.

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