VITRUVE - PERRAULT Architecture générale de Vitruve réduite en abrégé Amsterdam, Huguetan, 1681. In-12, frontispiece - title - 7 ffnch - 224 - (12) ff including 11 plates out of text, one of which double - 12 ff (name scratched on title page). Bound in full contemporary speckled basane, spine ribbed and decorated (very worn binding, headbands torn and jaws split). Dutch counterfeit of the "pocket" version of the Vitruvius published by Coignard in 1674 and by Claude Perrault, famous architect of the Louvre Colonnade. This reduced edition was produced at Colbert's request, after the publication of the "large" edition of 1673, in order to make architectural knowledge more accessible to all.

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