Description
(Architecture). Vitruvius. (Claude Perrault). "Abridgement of the ten books of architecture of Vitruvius". Paris, Coignard, 1674. In-16 bound in full contemporary basane, spine with ornamented nerves. (5ff) 224 pages. This copy offers the 11 black plates at the end of the volume with the explanation opposite. Followed by " The explanation of the difficult words which meet in Vitruvius ". Spine a little short (1 mm), tiny lack of leather at foot, boards rubbed. A good copy. Uncommon first edition. After the complete commented and illustrated edition ofTen books of architecture(1673) Claude Perrault proposed the following year anAbregéof Vitruvius also published by Jean-Baptiste Coignard, intended more exclusively for professionals, the "apprentices" but also the "masters". In this exercise, Perrault takes a back seat to Vitruvius, a fact worth noting. In 1674 indeed one does not find the severe criticisms on the contemporary practices and those of the last century, nor the eulogies on the achievements of the Perrault clan or on the ingenious inventions of the Moderns in the field of mechanics or hydraulics. In case of obscurity, Claude simply refers the reader to his complete edition of Vitruvius. In "Université de Tours", Architecture Bulletin.
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(Architecture). Vitruvius. (Claude Perrault). "Abridgement of the ten books of architecture of Vitruvius". Paris, Coignard, 1674. In-16 bound in full contemporary basane, spine with ornamented nerves. (5ff) 224 pages. This copy offers the 11 black plates at the end of the volume with the explanation opposite. Followed by " The explanation of the difficult words which meet in Vitruvius ". Spine a little short (1 mm), tiny lack of leather at foot, boards rubbed. A good copy. Uncommon first edition. After the complete commented and illustrated edition ofTen books of architecture(1673) Claude Perrault proposed the following year anAbregéof Vitruvius also published by Jean-Baptiste Coignard, intended more exclusively for professionals, the "apprentices" but also the "masters". In this exercise, Perrault takes a back seat to Vitruvius, a fact worth noting. In 1674 indeed one does not find the severe criticisms on the contemporary practices and those of the last century, nor the eulogies on the achievements of the Perrault clan or on the ingenious inventions of the Moderns in the field of mechanics or hydraulics. In case of obscurity, Claude simply refers the reader to his complete edition of Vitruvius. In "Université de Tours", Architecture Bulletin.
