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NORMAND (Charles). Nouveau parallèle des ordres d'architecture des Grecs, des Romains, et des auteurs modernes... Paris, Imprimerie Firmin Didot, 1819. In-folio, 29 x 45 cm, 2 ff., 39 pp. frontispiece and 64 plates, contemporary binding in midnight blue half calf, gilt roulette framing the boards, spine decorated with faux-nerfs and gilt motifs. First edition. The illustration, drawn and engraved by the author, comprises a title-frontispiece and 64 plates (including an unnumbered plate "Parallèle des ordres antiques"). A good copy, with full margins, in an elegant contemporary binding. Label of Auvray, marchand d'estampes et cartes géographiques quai Malaquais à Paris, on the flyleaf with the handwritten words "Louise". Scattered foxing. Some scuffing to boards, corners very slightly corroded.
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NORMAND (Charles). Nouveau parallèle des ordres d'architecture des Grecs, des Romains, et des auteurs modernes... Paris, Imprimerie Firmin Didot, 1819. In-folio, 29 x 45 cm, 2 ff., 39 pp. frontispiece and 64 plates, contemporary binding in midnight blue half calf, gilt roulette framing the boards, spine decorated with faux-nerfs and gilt motifs. First edition. The illustration, drawn and engraved by the author, comprises a title-frontispiece and 64 plates (including an unnumbered plate "Parallèle des ordres antiques"). A good copy, with full margins, in an elegant contemporary binding. Label of Auvray, marchand d'estampes et cartes géographiques quai Malaquais à Paris, on the flyleaf with the handwritten words "Louise". Scattered foxing. Some scuffing to boards, corners very slightly corroded.
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