VITRUVIUS. The Ten Books on Architecture. Second edition, revised, corrected, and expanded. Paris, Jean-Baptiste Coignard, 1684. Folio, red half-maroquin,…

VITRUVIUS. The Ten Books on Architecture. Second edition, revised, corrected, and expanded. Paris, Jean-Baptiste Coignard, 1684. Folio, red half-maroquin, decorated spine, green title label (modern binding). Second edition of the French translation by Claude Perrault (1613–1688), brother of the famous author of *Les Contes*. This version was first published in 1673 by the same publisher. It is illustrated with an allegorical frontispiece by Sébastien Le Clerc and 65 engraved plates within th

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