[ARCHITECTURE]. PALLADIO, Andrea (1518-1580). Traicte des cinq ordres d'architecture, desquels se sont seruy les Anciens. Traduit du Palladio augmente de nouvelles inventions pour l'art de bien bastir par le Sr. Le Muet. Paris: F. Langlois, 1645.
Sale 697 - Fine Books and Manuscripts including Americana
Nov 6, 2019
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
Estimate
$600 -
$800
Sold for $813
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
[ARCHITECTURE]. PALLADIO, Andrea (1518-1580). Traicte des cinq ordres d'architecture, desquels se sont seruy les Anciens. Traduit du Palladio augmente de nouvelles inventions pour l'art de bien bastir par le Sr. Le Muet. Paris: F. Langlois, 1645.
2 parts in one volume, 8vo (167 x 21 mm). Engraved frontispiece to part II (lacking engraved frontispiece to part I); 72 engraved plates, numerous illustrations; with 2 blank leaves following p. 114. (Dampstaining to lower margin.) Contemporary vellum (soiled).
FIRST EDITION of Pierre Le Muet's translation of the first book of Palladio's I quattro libri dell'architettura (1570), intended as "a cheap and popular pocket guidebook to building and the orders" (RIBA p.1376).
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