272 - Vingboons, Philippe. Architectural Works Containing Drawings—Both Plans and Elevations—of the Principal and Most Recent Buildings in the Latest Expansion of the City of Amsterdam and Other Locations in These Provinces. Leiden: van der Aa, 1715., First French edition of the complete works of the famous Dutch architect

Vingboons, Philippe. Architectural Works Containing Drawings—Both Plans and Elevations—of the Principal and Most Recent Buildings in the Latest Expansion of the City of Amsterdam and Other Locations in These Provinces. Leiden: van der Aa, 1715., First French edition of the complete works of the famous Dutch architect Vingboons, Philippe. Architectural Works containing both floor plans and elevations of the principal and newest buildings in the latest expansion of the city of Amsterdam and other locations in these provinces. Leiden, van der Aa, 1715. Folio (450 x 280 mm); 30 pages. Small decorative medallion, frontispiece, title page in red and black type, dedicatory plate, 80 out-of-text copperplate engravings numbered A–E and 1–74, with plate 50 appearing twice (widespread browning). Contemporary full parchment binding, spine with 6 raised bands and a red label bearing the title in gold, polychrome spray-painted edges (faded). Vingboons ranks among the leading exponents of Dutch Classicism, associated with the school of Jacob van Campen. His complete works were compiled into two volumes published separately more than twenty-five years apart, the first of which appeared in 1648. First French edition of the collected works by the famous Dutch architect