Liure d'architecture d'autels et de cheminees
By: de l'inuention et dessin de I. Barbet ; graué à leau forte par A. Bosse
Contributors: Bosse, Abraham, 1602-1676; Mitchell, Herbert, former owner; Herbert Mitchell Bequest (Avery Library)
Publisher: Et se vend chez l'autheur ... et chez M. Tauernier ...
Published: 1633
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 20
Subjects: Altars; Designs and plans; Early works to 1800; Mantels; Decoration and ornament; Louis XIV style; History; Specimens
Other titles: Livre d'architectvre d'autels et de cheminees; Livre d'architecture d'autels et de cheminees
Notes: Also issued by Pierre Mariette. First ed. 1632. See Berlin Ornamentstichsammlung.

Engraved throughout. Comprises title leaf, dedication to Cardinal Richelieu, preface, 5 full-page altars and 12 chimney-pieces.

Avery Classics copy 1: Bound with: [Designs for altar-pieces, a tomb, a garden pavilion with grotto, a doorway and six chimney-pieces] A Paris : de l'Imprimerie d'Herman Weyen ruë S. Iacques, à lenseigne [sic] S. Benoist pres la Poste, [1640?],(representing altars, the tomb of Henri II, fire-places, etc.) bound at end.-- Cf. Destailleur, Recueil d'estampes relatives à l'ornementation des appartements ... 1863, p. 19.

Avery Classics copy 2: Gift of Herbert Mitchell.

Berlin Ornamentstichsammlung, 3712