Cours d’Architecture qui comprend les ordres de Vignole, Avec des Commentaires, les Fgures & Descriptions de ses plus beaux Bâtimens, & de ceux de MICHEL-ANGE…& tout ce qui regarde L’Art de Bâtir…
- With 2 engraved frontispieces, 31 folding plates, and 84 full-page engraved illustrations. [78], xii, 356; [vi], 260 pp. 4to
- Paris: Nicolas Langlois, ruë Saint Jacques, 1696
Paris: Nicolas Langlois, ruë Saint Jacques, 1696. Second edition. With 2 engraved frontispieces, 31 folding plates, and 84 full-page engraved illustrations. [78], xii, 356; [vi], 260 pp. 4to. Bound in full contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine. Provenance: A.C. Lascarides Ham House Ham Common (typographic label). Second edition. With 2 engraved frontispieces, 31 folding plates, and 84 full-page engraved illustrations. [78], xii, 356; [vi], 260 pp. 4to. Of the first edition (1691), Fowler wrote, "from the point of view of the practical architect this Cours d'architecture was the best work of its kind yet issued" Berlin 2389; cf. Millard 14 & Fowler pp. 24-5