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A Parallel of the Antient Architecture with the Modern, In a Collection of Ten Principal Authors who have Written upon the Five Orders, Viz. Palazzo and Scamozzi, Serlio and Vignola, D. Barbaro and Cataneo, L.B. Alberti and Viola, Bullant and De Lorme, Compared with One Another. The Three Greek Orders, Dorick, Ionick, and Corinthian, Comprise the First Part of this Treatise. And the Two Latin, Tuscan and Composita, the Latter..
by FREART, Roland
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London: Printed by T.W. for D. Brown, J. Walthoe, B. and S. Tooke, D. Midwinter, W. Mears, and F. Clay, 1723.. Third edition. Small folio. (xxiv), xx, xxv-xxxviii, 115, (1); (vi), 74 pp. Contemporary blindstamped calf boards, rebacked to style with a gilt lettered dark green label, early annotations to both front and rear pastedowns and endpapers. Frontispiece, 40 full page engravings and other illustrations in the text including head and tailpieces. Some dampstaining, mostly marginal, and occasional soiling, some sympathetic restoration to the boards.
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- Title
- A Parallel of the Antient Architecture with the Modern, In a Collection of Ten Principal Authors who have Written upon the Five Orders, Viz. Palazzo and Scamozzi, Serlio and Vignola, D. Barbaro and Cataneo, L.B. Alberti and Viola, Bullant and De Lorme, Compared with One Another. The Three Greek Orders, Dorick, Ionick, and Corinthian, Comprise the First Part of this Treatise. And the Two Latin, Tuscan and Composita, the Latter..
- Author
- FREART, Roland
- Book Condition
- Used
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- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Printed by T.W. for D. Brown, J. Walthoe, B. and S. Tooke, D. Midwinter, W. Mears, and F. Clay
- Date Published
- 1723.
- Keywords
- Art Architecture
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Bow Windows Bookshop has a large general stock of old and fine books and maps. Owned in partnership by Ric Latham and Jonathan Menezes, we buy and sell all manner of titles from early leatherbound volumes to modern first editions. We exhibit at bookfairs in the UK and North America and issue regular printed catalogues. Located in the beautiful county town of Lewes in the south-east of England, we are open six days a week. All our books are described as accurately as possible and we abide by the Code of Good Practice of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association
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