Cours d'architecture qui comprend les ordres de Vignole
Subtitle: avec des commentaires, les figures & descriptions de ses plus beaux bâtimens, & de ceux de Michel-Ange ... & tout ce qui regarde l'art de bâtir : avec une ample explication par ordre alphabetique de tous les termes
By: par le sieur A.C. d'Aviler architecte
Contributors: Vignola, 1507-1573; Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564; Langlois, Jean, 1649-ca. 1712; Boulogne, Louis, 1654-1733; Corneille, Jean-Baptiste, 1649-1695; Lepautre, Pierre, 1660-1744; Dolivar, Juan, 1641-1692; Berey, Claude Auguste, fl. 1689-1722; Marot, Daniel, 1661-1752; Langlois, Nicolas, 1640-1703
Publisher: Chez Nicolas Langlois, ruë saint Jacques, à la Victoire
Published: 1691
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Subjects: Architecture; Early works to 1800; Orders; Dictionaries; Neoclassicism (Architecture)
Other titles: Explication des termes d'architecture.
Notes: Vol. 1 has added engraved t.p. by Jean Langlois after Louis Boulogne. First p. of dedication engraved, with head-piece by Daniel Marot. Vol. 2 has engraved frontispiece by Jean Baptiste Corneille, with title "Explication des termes d'architecture" printed from inset second plate. Three plates signed by Juan Dolivar, one by Claude Auguste Berey. Others, unsigned, by Pierre Le Pautre; see Fowler.

Pagination, v. 1: [36], xij, [46], 355, [1] p. (the last blank). Vol. 2: [2], 355-360, 363-880, [4] p. Plates in v. 1 comprise four in preliminaries (lettered [cross], A-C), and a sequence numbered 1-103 with interpolated plates 43B, 44A, 63B, 64B, 65B-D, 66B (13/14 on one plate). Thirty-one plates are double page (some folded), tipped onto stubs at centerfold; these bear plate nos. only. The remainder are single page, printed in letterpress gatherings, and bearing page numbers and signatures as well as plate numbers.

Includes index.

Errata, last [4] p. of v. 2.

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Fowler collection of early architectural books (microfilm), reel 7