Architecture.- Perrault (Claude) Ordonnance des Cinq Especes de Colonnes selon la Methode des Anciens, first edition, Paris, Jean Baptiste Coignard, 1683.
Architecture.- Perrault (Claude) Ordonnance des Cinq Especes de Colonnes selon la Methode des Anciens, first edition, title with woodcut arms of Louis XIV, engraved head-piece of arms of Colbert (the dedicatee), engraved initial and 6 plates by Le Pautre, Chastillon and le Clerc, woodcut illustrations, a little wormed, mostly to margins but affecting some plates, pencil inscription of Kerry Downes, handsome contemporary red morocco ruled and tooled in gilt, rubbed, lacking spine, covers worn at corners and detached, [Berlin Kat. 2386; Fowler 247 ; Millard, French 138], folio, Paris, Jean Baptiste Coignard, 1683.
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Architecture.- Perrault (Claude) Ordonnance des Cinq Especes de Colonnes selon la Methode des Anciens, first edition, title with woodcut arms of Louis XIV, engraved head-piece of arms of Colbert (the dedicatee), engraved initial and 6 plates by Le Pautre, Chastillon and le Clerc, woodcut illustrations, a little wormed, mostly to margins but affecting some plates, pencil inscription of Kerry Downes, handsome contemporary red morocco ruled and tooled in gilt, rubbed, lacking spine, covers worn at corners and detached, [Berlin Kat. 2386; Fowler 247 ; Millard, French 138], folio, Paris, Jean Baptiste Coignard, 1683.