219 - ANDROUET DU CERCEAU (Jacques). Book on Architecture. Containing various plans and elevations of buildings for lords, gentlemen, and others who wish to build in the countryside; some of these include designs for small courtyards, with their specific amenities, as well as gardens and orchards. Paris, for Jacques Androuet du Cerceau, 1582. Folio, marbled half-calf with small vellum corners, covers lined with marbled paper, smooth spine, red title label, untrimmed (modern binding).

ANDROUET DU CERCEAU (Jacques). Book on Architecture. Containing various plans and elevations of buildings for lords, gentlemen, and others who wish to build in the countryside; some of these include designs for small courtyards, with their specific amenities, as well as gardens and orchards. Paris, for Jacques Androuet du Cerceau, 1582. Folio, marbled half-calf with small vellum corners, covers lined with marbled paper, smooth spine, red title label, untrimmed (modern binding). First edition of the last of the three Books of Architecture by Jacques Androuet du Cerceau (1510–1584), also known as the Book of Architecture for the Countryside, composed and published as a continuation of the first two, which appeared in 1559 and 1561. The illustrations consist of 52 copperplate-engraved plates of plans and elevations relating to 38 building projects, preceded by an explanatory text of 26 folios. Brunet and Geymüller (Les Du Cerceau..., p. 312) cite a 1572 edition that does not exist, likely due to confusion with this one. The copy is slightly soiled, with a tear or slit—with no missing material—that has been restored on the title page, in the margin of folio A4, and on 6 plates. Appraiser: Mr. Dominique Courvoisier