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Les quatre liures de l'architecture d'André Palladio : mis en françois : dans lesquels, après vn petit traitté des cinq ordres, auec quelques-vnes des plus necessaires obseruations pour bien bastir, il parle de la construction des maisons particulieres, des grands chemins, des ponts, des places publiques, des xystes, des basiliques, & des temples

by: Palladio, Andrea, 1508-1580; Fréart, Roland, sieur de Chambray, 1606-1676; Martin, Edme, 17th cent

Publication date: 1650

Topics: Architecture

Publisher: A Paris : De l' imprimerie d'Edme Martin ...

Collection: getty; americana

Contributor: Getty Research Institute

Language: French

Translated by Roland Fréart, sieur de Chambray. See privilege, last leaf

"First edition of Book I - IV in French. The woodcuts are from the original blocks used in the 1570 Italian edition"--Fowler

Title of each of the 4 books printed in woodcut architectural surround. Woodcut in-text ill., many full page. Head-pieces, initials

Signatures: a² A-H I² K-Z 2A 2B-2T

Includes index

Fowler

Binding: old sheepskin. Double fillets in black along margins of boards, spine tooled in black. Author & title in gilt on (later?) red spine label. Edges sprinkled red & blue

Giovanni Muzio's bookplate, etched by Giacomo Manzù. Signatures of G. Clément-Simon, and [S?]ulduruy. Two ownership inscriptions on t.p., now scratched out; one may read: Julien Du Haniel