Accession number
PML 195886
Creator
Le Muet, Pierre, 1591-1669.
Published
A Paris : Chez F. Langlois, dit Chartres ..., 1645.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
2 pts. in 1 vol., paged and signed continuously.
Each vol. has added t.p., engraved and illustrated.
Title and text within line borders and entirely engraved throughout.
Pt. [2] has title: Traicté des galleries, entrées, salles, antichambres, & chambres ...; title on added t.p.: Divers traictez d'architecture, pour l'art de bien bastir, par le sr. Le Muet ...; caption title: Des galeries, entrées, sales, antichambres & chambres, & de leurs proportions.
In part (p. 1-116) a translation of the chapters on the five orders of architecture from Palladio's "I quattro libri dell'architettura."
Pt. [1]: [10], 116 p.; pt. [2]: [4] p., p. 117-229, 15 p. of plates (154 duplicated in numbering).
Library's copy imperfect; lacking the t.p.'s for pt. 2 described as following p. 116 in others copies.
Each vol. has added t.p., engraved and illustrated.
Title and text within line borders and entirely engraved throughout.
Pt. [2] has title: Traicté des galleries, entrées, salles, antichambres, & chambres ...; title on added t.p.: Divers traictez d'architecture, pour l'art de bien bastir, par le sr. Le Muet ...; caption title: Des galeries, entrées, sales, antichambres & chambres, & de leurs proportions.
In part (p. 1-116) a translation of the chapters on the five orders of architecture from Palladio's "I quattro libri dell'architettura."
Pt. [1]: [10], 116 p.; pt. [2]: [4] p., p. 117-229, 15 p. of plates (154 duplicated in numbering).
Library's copy imperfect; lacking the t.p.'s for pt. 2 described as following p. 116 in others copies.
Description
2 v. in 1 : ill. ; 19 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
1/4 calf.
Classification
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