Perrault, Claude (1613-1688) Ordonnance des Cinq Especes des Colonnes selon la Methode des Anciens.
Paris: Chez Jean Baptiste Coignard, 1683.
First edition, folio, large woodcut device to title, illustrated with engraved vignettes, initials, text woodcuts, and six full-page engravings, bound in full contemporary speckled calf, gilt-tooled spine, repaired, 14 1/4 x 9 1/2 in.
Physician and amateur architect, Perrault is probably best known for his contributions in the design of the Paris Observatory and the eastern façade of the Louvre, better known as the Louvre Colonnade. This particular work is dedicated to the five types of columns favored by the Ancients.
