Charles DUPUIS, Traité d'architecture, comprenant les cinq ordres des anciens, établis dans une juste proportion entre eux [] Cours de géométrie pratique [] Traité d'arithmétique [] Traité de la mesure des surfaces planes [] Cours de perspective Paris, l'auteur, 1782 1 vol. in-4°: xxviiip. (title, dedication, preface, table), 100-175-61p., 1f., 67pl., 6f. tables, 3pl. 2 tables, 9 pl. Very fresh copy, several sections printed on blue paper. Excellent condition inside. Bound in modern full red chagrin, spine muted. A very good copy. Treatise on classical architecture written by Fontaine's father-in-law (posthumously). Very rare collection of 3 treatises originally published separately. These treatises were intended for young men from good families, destined to blossom between military and artistic glory. The author was an architect and teacher at Versailles at the end of the Ancien Régime. The book offers a course in perspective applied to buildings and landscapes, complete with an interesting dictionary of technical terms for neophytes. Charles Dupuis is an interesting example of the last attempts to resist new ideas at the end of the 18th century.