SCAMOZZI,
Vicenzo.
Les Cinq Ordres d’Architecture de Vincent Scamozzi, Vicentin, Architecte de la Repuplique [sic] de Venise: Tirez du sixiéme Livre de son Idée generale d’Architecture: avec les Planches Originales. Par Augustin Charles D’Aviler, Architecte. A
Paris: chez
Jean Baptiste Coignard, Imprimeur du Roy,
m. dc. lxxxv
. Avec Privilege de Sa Maiesté. [1685.]
NA2812 .S2 fol
First Edition of this translation. Folio. Engraved title within an architectural border with a portrait in an oval compartment,
followed by the printed title and 74 leaves including 37 full-page engravings in the text, 2 full-page engravings at the end.
The imprint on the engraved title reads: A
Paris: chez
Nicolas Belley, rue S
t. Iacques entre les Colleges de Louis le Grand et du Plessis Sorbonne
á lImage Saint Athanase,
MDCLXXXV.
Brunet IV, 180.
Graesse VI, 290.
Kimball, page 99.
Purchased from
Froullé, reported by him in a letter dated from Paris, 20 Juillet, 1791.
Vicenzo Scamozzi, 1552-1616, famous Italian architect. His
Idea dell’ Architettura Universale was first published in Venice in 1615. The sixth book, which treats of the different orders, was the only one translated
by D’Aviler.
Augustin Charles D’Aviler, 1655-1700, French architect, studied in Rome. He translated and published commentaries on the works of Vignola as well as
of Scamozzi, and himself wrote a
Cours d’Architecture
.
These three books were probably bought separately by Jefferson and bound together for him. In his undated catalogue he has bracketed them as above, with the one price,
15.0. The first and last entry, Serlio and Scamozzi, were originally entered by him with their own prices,
3.0. each, which have been partly deleted.
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