Architecture - Lot 531

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Architecture - Lot 531
Architecture DAVILER (Augustin Charles) - [VIGNOLE (Giacomo Barozzi or Jacopo Barozzi da)] I/ Cours d'Architecture qui comprend les Ordres de Vignole, avec des commentaires, les figures & descriptions de ses plus beaux bâtimens, & de ceux de Michel Ange - II/ Explication des termes d'architecture par le sieur Daviller. Paris, Mariette, 1720. 2 volumes in-4, texts framed; illustrated with 2 engraved titles and 132 plates out of text, many of them on double page, all in volume I. Contemporary marbled fawn calf, spine ribbed and decorated, red title-pieces, 3 headpieces wiped off, gilt roulettes on the edges, corners dull, red edges. Charles d'Aviler (or Daviler), a French architect considered as one of the main promoters of the vignolesque canon. He developed it by proposing variations of motifs to give more flexibility and expressiveness to the rigid system of the five orders. For a long time considered as the best work of this kind that we had in France.
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