(ARCHITECTURE.) Fréart, Roland, Sieur de Chambray. Parallele de l'Architecture Antique et de la Moderne contenant les profils des plus beaux edifices de Rome, comparés avec les dix principaux autheurs . . . Palladio et Scamozzi, Serlio et Vignole, D. Barbaro et Cataneo, L.B. Alberti et Viola, Bullant, et De Lorme. Seconde Edition. 48 full-page engraved plates plus title vignette and two head-pieces. Folio, contemporary sheep, spine worn with remnant of calf gilt spine label, edges worn, covers becoming loose; endleaves soiled, scattered foxing, heaviest to preliminaries, lower margins of plates 84 and 86 torn with minor loss. Stated second but later edition of this important and influential treatise. Fowler 128 (note); Millard, French, 195-96. ex-collection french physicist stephani (etienne)-francisci dutour, with his book label. Paris, Charles Antoine Jombert, [1700]