Architecture et parties qui en dependent

Features

Author:  s.a. [Diderot e D'Alembert]

Publisher:  s.e.

Year of publication:  n.d.

Product Condition:
Copy in good condition. Half leather binding with canvas corners and boards with gilt titles on the spine with five raised bands: small gilt decorations on the spine, dust spots on the boards and minimal abrasions on the edges and spine. Stamp on the back pastedown. Frayed edges with traces of dust. Collational formula: A-B⁴, C². Leaves and plates in good condition: serious losses to the upper external corners (in particular to the first part of the volume) without compromising the text. Gilded printed writing "All'amico Ettore Tadi" and ownership signature in pen on the first flyleaf. B4 cut without compromising the text. Text in French. Texte en Français.

Pages:  20,(68 tables)

Format:  In folio

Dimensions (cm):
Height:  42
Width:  26

Description

Collection of 68 clearly engraved plates preceded by explanatory text attributable to one of the eighteenth-century editions of the Encyclopedie, ou Dictionnaire raisonne' des sciences, des arts et des metiers by Diderot and D'Alembert: details on the architectural orders, examples of sacred and public buildings, private palaces, decorations of the rooms of the Palais-Royal, elements of construction science (stone cutting, carpentry, ...)

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