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(ARCHITECTURE.) La Rue, Jean-Baptiste de.
Traité de la Coupe des Pierres,
ou par une Méthode facile & abregée, l’on peut aisément se perfectionner en
cette Science.
140 full-page engraved illustrations (including numerous repetitions) on 71
leaves, including 21 folding; engraved lift-up flaps on plates 15, 33 bis, 42 bis, and 63 bis,
the first and third loose. [18], 185, [1] pages, including engraved allegorical additional title.
5 parts in one volume with continuous pagination. Folio, 424x280 mm, 18th-century mot-
tled sheep gilt stamped “
J
.
B
.
DUMONTIER
” on front cover, rebacked retaining original
backstrip with 19th-century morocco lettering piece; scattered foxing, light streaks or
stains, and marginalia on text leaves, title to third part heavily spotted, light soiling or off-
setting on some plates.
Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1728
[1,500/2,500]
FIRST EDITION
of a profusely illustrated treatise on architectural stonecutting, “in its day, the
most accurate and complete work on the subject . . . A number of plates are printed with the
same image on both sides, to facilitate reference to and from the text; others are printed twice on
different sheets for the same reason”—RIBA/Early Printed Books 1765.
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(ARCHITECTURE.) Le Clerc, Sebastien.
Traité D’Architeture avec des
Remarques et des Observations.
2 volumes in 1. Engraved titles, head- and tail-pieces,
and 181 numbered plates. 4to, contemporary leather, worn, needs rebinding; internally
clean; book label of Assheton Curzon and ex-collection architect Charles Ewing. Brunet
III, 915.
Paris: Pierre Giffart, 1714
[500/750]
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(ARCHITECTURE.) Mizner,Addison.
Florida Architecture.
Introduction by Ida
M. Tarbe. Foreword by Paris Singer. 185 sepia-toned photographic plates of lavish resi-
dences designed by Mizner. Folio,
1
/
2
orange linen over marbled panels and spine label,
extremities worn with loss of binding material.
NewYork:William Helburn, Inc., (1928)
[1,000/1,500]
FIRST EDITION
of an uncommon work on Mizener, who spearheaded South Florida’s
Mediterranean Revival style and helped develop Boca Raton.
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(ARCHITECTURE.) Graffenried,
Adolf; and Stürler, Moritz von.
Architecture Suisse, ou Choix de
Maisons Rustiques des Alpes du
Canton de Berne.
Parallel French and
German text. Additional chromolitho-
graphed pictorial title and 32 plates of
wood chalets from the canton of Berne,
including measured drawings and eleva-
tions, some tinted, a few partially
hand-colored. Folio, publisher’s pictorial
blue boards, extremities toned and worn;
one small marginal stain on plate 19 from
a piece of leather, with residual offsetting
to adjacent leaves, otherwise plates bright
and clean.
Berne: J. J. Burgdorfer, 1844
[800/1,200]
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