15 - BLONDEL. VIGNOLE.

BLONDEL. VIGNOLE. [18th-Century Architecture—Engraved Suites]. LOT of 3 titles. 2 parts in a single period in-8 volume and 2 small in-folio volumes in temporary “tourbillon”-style paper covers. - BLONDEL, Jacques-François. [Plates] from the Course in Architecture containing the lectures given in 1750 and subsequent years Paris: Desaint, 1771. Marbled and polished fawn calfskin of the period; ribbed spine decorated with gilded floral panels, garnet title label and green volume number, gilt title, gilt roulette on the edges, red edges (corners and edges rubbed, scuff marks on the clasps, tail cap worn down but interior generally fresh). A fine copy. A collection of plates from the first two in-8 volumes of the Course in Architecture, including (3) ff., 22 black-and-white copper engravings and (1) folio, 93 black-and-white copper engravings. For a total of 115 plates, including numerous fold-outs, engraved in black on copper by Milsan, Michelinot, Le Roi, Ransonnet and VIGNOLE. -*Livre nouveau, ou Règles des cinq ordres d'architecture* Newly revised, corrected, and expanded by Monsieur B***,... With several excerpts from Michelangelo, Vitruvius, and Mansard Paris: Chereau, 1761. Small folio (42 x 29 cm), 30 plates (including the frontispiece title page and the Notice to the Reader), in a marbled temporary cover (very slight marginal foxing). Includes the beautiful title-frontispiece engraved on copper by Vasseur after Cochin and a “Notice to the Reader” drawn and engraved by Babel. The 28 plates are engraved by Charpentier after Cochin, Babel, Poulot, and Marvi. - *Le Grand et Nouveau Vignole*. Small folio. With a contemporary temporary cover of the same design.