[ARCHITECTURE] Factitious collection of plates / Parallèle des Cinq Ordres d'Architecture des différentes Cultures A very handsome factice with a total of 105 plates, some of them folding, probably all by the painter and architect Charles Errard (only a few are marked C. Errard). Beautiful contemporary full calf binding, 6-rib spine and ornate boxes, red morocco title-piece, some rubbing, cracks at bottom of spines, not serious, well compacted and solid binding. Overall fresh interior, although some plates are soiled with brown marks, mostly marginal. In-folio format, (1) 105pp of numbered plates.

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