Architecture - Lot 432

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. In-4: 44f. (table), 355pp. (including several leaves with asterisks); illustrated with an engraved faux-title page (with reinforcement in lower part on spine) and 132 plates out of text, many on double page. Text framed. Some leaves with small rectangular cut-outs in foot margins. Contemporary marbled fawn calf, spine ribbed and ornamented, red title page, headband frayed, small lack at foot of headband, jaws cracked at entrances, gilt roulettes on edges, corners dulled, red edges. Charles d'Aviler (or Daviler) was a French architect considered one of the main promoters of the Vignollesque canon. He developed it by proposing variant motifs to give greater flexibility and expressiveness to the rigid system of five orders. Long considered the best work of its kind in France.