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Architecture Pratique, De M. Bullet, Architecte du Roi, & de l'Academie Royale d'Architecture.Avec une Explication de trente-six Articles de la Coutume de Paris, sur le Titre des Servitudes & Rapports qui concernent les Batimens. Par M. Seguin, Entrepeneur de Batimen
by BULLET, [Pierre]
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Paris. Chez Didot. 1788. Hardcover. thick 12mo, 19.5cm, xl,700p., engraved frontis plate & 16 engraved plates, (inc 7 folding), numerous text figures, index, complete with half title, in contemporary full mottled calf, real raised bands, gilt panel borders and decorations, gilt titles, marbled endpapers, worn at th edges, a very good still sound copy (n13). - A classic manual of architecture by French architect Pierre Bullet (1639-1716), whose principal works were the Hotel Crozat (1702) and Evereux (1707) on the Place Vendome. "Architecture Pratique" was first published in 1691. This edition has a hand-written note by a former owner "cette Edition de 1788, commentee par Seguin, est plus estimee que les precideuter.
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- Bookseller
- Patrick McGahern Books, Inc. (ABAC)
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 29518
- Title
- Architecture Pratique, De M. Bullet, Architecte du Roi, & de l'Academie Royale d'Architecture.Avec une Explication de trente-six Articles de la Coutume de Paris, sur le Titre des Servitudes & Rapports qui concernent les Batimens. Par M. Seguin, Entrepeneur de Batimen
- Author
- BULLET, [Pierre]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Paris. Chez Didot. 1788
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- FRANCE FRENCH PARIS ARCHITECTURE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ARCHITECT BULLET BUILDI NG CONSTRUCTION
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About the Seller
Patrick McGahern Books, Inc. (ABAC)
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Ottawa, Ontario
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- Raised Band(s)
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- 12mo
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- Edges
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- Calf
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