FELIBIEN DES AVAUX, Jean-François (1619-1695). Vita degli architetti. Venice: Fossati, 1755. Extra-illustrated with 4 additional plates (following OPAC SBN collation), of this collection of biographies written by Fèlibien Des Avaux, historiographer to the king and secretary of the Académie royale d'architecture. The volume also includes a section devoted to architectural plans and descriptions of country houses. 8vo, (220 x 144 mm), with 13 engraved plates, 12 of which folded several times (OPAC SBN records 9, of which 6 folding) with views and architectural plans, title-page with vignette, head-pieces and engraved initials (marginal tear to corner of one plate restored at an earlier date, some browning and foxing, small waterstains and spots). Bound in nineteenth-century binding half vellum, gilt title-piece to spine (some wear). Provenance: private library markings to endpapers. (1)