VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Marcus. Les dix livres d'Architecture... corrigez et traduits nouvellement en François. Translated by Claude Perrault Paris: Jean Baptiste Coignard, 1684. 2° (428 x 290mm.). Engraved title by G.Scotin after S.Le Clerc, two headpieces, two initials, one tailpiece, 68 illustrations, 53 full-page, 8 double-page, by Le Clerc, Scotin, J.Grignon, G.Tournier and others, numerous woodcut illustrations (outer blank margin wormed to Ddd1). Contemporary speckled calf (extremities and backstrip worn). Provenance : William Maynard (ownership inscription on engraved title); Lowther family (bookplate). Second edition of the full text of Perrault's translation and commentary, the first having been published in 1673. '...considered one of the scholarly editions of Vitruvius.': cf.Fowler 418; Brunet V.1329. PRIP-MØLLER, Johannes. Chinese Buddhist Monasteries. Copenhagen and London: G.E.C.Gads Forlag and Oxford University Press, 1937. Large 4° (388 x 287mm.). Plates, maps, plans and illustrations, a few coloured, some folding, including four folding plans loose in pocket at rear. Original vellum-backed boards by Jakob Baden (lightly soiled and sunned). (2)
VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Marcus. Les dix livres d'Architecture... corrigez et traduits nouvellement en François. Translated by Claude Perrault Paris: Jean Baptiste Coignard, 1684. 2° (428 x 290mm.). Engraved title by G.Scotin after S.Le Clerc, two headpieces, two initials, one tailpiece, 68 illustrations, 53 full-page, 8 double-page, by Le Clerc, Scotin, J.Grignon, G.Tournier and others, numerous woodcut illustrations (outer blank margin wormed to Ddd1). Contemporary speckled calf (extremities and backstrip worn). Provenance : William Maynard (ownership inscription on engraved title); Lowther family (bookplate). Second edition of the full text of Perrault's translation and commentary, the first having been published in 1673. '...considered one of the scholarly editions of Vitruvius.': cf.Fowler 418; Brunet V.1329. PRIP-MØLLER, Johannes. Chinese Buddhist Monasteries. Copenhagen and London: G.E.C.Gads Forlag and Oxford University Press, 1937. Large 4° (388 x 287mm.). Plates, maps, plans and illustrations, a few coloured, some folding, including four folding plans loose in pocket at rear. Original vellum-backed boards by Jakob Baden (lightly soiled and sunned). (2)
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