[ARCHITECTURE] Paul JAMOT - A.G. Perret and the architecture of reinforced concrete Librairie Nationale d'art et d'histoire G. Vanoest à Paris et Bruxelles, 1927 - First edition of this fine study of Auguste Perret, one of the leading specialists in reinforced concrete, long denigrated by historians and theoreticians of the modern movement close to Le Corbusier in particular, before finding an important place in architectural history. Paperback in good condition, cover slightly soiled and internally foxed. Enriched with a handsome autograph letter from the author to Victor, a politician and writer, and his wife Alice Bérard. Numerous illustrations in text and 48 plates out of text. In-4, 97pp (6)

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