VITRUVIUS

Dix Livres D'architecture de Vitruve

(VITRUVIUS) PERRAULT, [Claude]. Les Dix Livres D'architecture de Vitruve. Corrigez et Traduits nouvellement en Francois, avec des Notes & des Figures. Paris: Jean Baptiste Coignard, 1673. Large folio, period-style full dark brown calf, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, raised bands. $9000. First edition of Perrault's Vitruvius, with 65 fine engraved folio plates, many double-page, and numerous in-text woodcut illustrations, beautifully bound in full period-style calf-gilt. Written in the first century B.C., the manuscript of De Architectura was lost for some time and rediscovered in the 15th century. "This handbook on classical architecture is the only Roman work inspired by Greek architecture that has come down to us. It is therefore important as our prime source of many lost Greek writings on the subject… By exemplifying the principles of classical architecture it became the fundamental architectural handbook for centuries… The classical tradition of building, with its regular proportion and symmetry and the three orders-Doric, Ionic and Corinthian-derives from this book… Alberti, Bramante, Ghiberti, Michelangelo, Vignola, Palladio and many others were directly inspired by Vitruvius" (PMM 26). "Doctor, scientist, classicist, and amateur architect, the omnicompetent Perrault combined two distinct books in this treatise, one of the key texts in the history of French architecture. His scholarly translation of Vitruvius earned widespread praise, while the notes carried a controversial attack on the foundations of classicism. Perrault boldly argued that most aspects of beauty, including architectural proportions, were defined not by universal and invariable standards, but by custom" (Avery 84). Without engraved frontispiece. Fowler 418. Occasional inoffensive pencil notations. Slightly darkened title page with faint crease, remargined along top edge. Plates and text generally quite clean and fine. A very beautiful and important work in fine condition, splendidly bound.

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• 订书号：: 39132

• 书商: Bauman Rare Books (USA)