Lot 1217: LE CLERC, SEBASTIEN.

Traité d'architecture avec des remarques et des observations très-utiles pour les jeunes gens, qui veulent s'appliquer à ce bel art. Paris: Pierre Giffart, 1714

Condition Note: 2 volumes in one, 4to (245 x 184mm.), [8], 194, [2]pp.; [184 engraved leaves], illustration : 184 engraved plates (including title and sub-title to volume 2), 2 engraved head-pieces, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials, binding : contemporary calf, binding slightly rubbed

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LITERATURE AND REFERENCES

BAL RIBA 1802
CATALOGUE NOTE

first edition, published only a few months before Le Clerc's death.