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(ARCHITECTURE.) Blondel, Jacques-François. Cours d'Architecture ou Traité de la Décoration . . . les Bâtiments. 9 volumes [complete] comprising 6 text volumes and 6 plate volumes in 3. 377 copper-engraved plates, many folding, by Croisey, Marillier, Pelletier, Le Roy and others, after Blondel, Desprez, Eisen, Patte and others. 8vo, contemporary calf, heavily worn and needs rebinding; plates clean but for scattered creasing, toning, and a few short tears; ex-collection New York City architect Auguste L. Noel with his ink stamps on most endpapers. first edition of the "petit blondel." sold as is. Fowler 51; Berlin 2429. Paris: Desaint, 1771-77
with--D'Aviler, Augustin Charles. Cours d'Architecture qui comprend l'ordre de Vignole. 2 volumes. Engraved plates. 8vo, similar binding and condition as Blondel, same provenance and stamps of Noel. This is the 1720 edition of the popular and often reissued practical guide to architecture that superseded François Blondel's work of the same title, but then quickly fell behind J. F. Blondel's set featured in this lot. Paris: Mariette, 1720.
