Main entry:

Scamozzi, Vincenzo, 1552-1616.

Title & Author:

Les cinq ordres d'architecture de Vincent Scamozzi, Vincentin, architecte de la Republique de Venise : tirez du sixiéme livre de son Idée generale d'architecture : avec les planches originales / par Augustin Charles d'Aviler, architecte.

Publication:

A Paris : Chez Jean Baptiste Coignard, Imprimeur du Roy, ruë Saint Jacques, à la Bible d'or, 1685.

Description:

[16], 143, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm. (fol.)

Notes:
First French edition.
Leaves e1-2, evidently cancelled from most copies, are d'Aviler's dedication to Jules Hardouin Mansart. Engraved vignette at the head of dedication signed 'Le Pautre In. et sculp.'
Plates counted in pagination and register.
Plates signed 'Vinc. Scamozzi. Ar.'
Signatures: [ã]² e-õ² A-2N².
The Library of Congress has another issue with an added engraved title plate with imprint: Paris : N. Belley, 1685 (cf. Fowler).
The original plates of the 1615 edition were reworked and used for this French translation (see D'Aviler's preface for the use of these plates and his reasons for abridging the translation of the text.). The two plates between õ2 and A1 are of the five orders and the ornament of the Corinthian order, which were found on p. 6 and 155 of the 1615 edition.
Signatures: [ã]² ẽ-õ² A-2N² [$1 signed]. [ã]1 is an initial blank.
Leaves ẽ1-2, evidently cancelled from most copies, are d'Aviler's dedication to Jules Hardouin Mansart. Another issue has added engraved title plate with imprint: Paris : N. Belley, 1685.
BN, FRBNF31308121
Brunet, V, column 180
Cicognara, 654
Fowler, 299
National Gallery of Art (U.S.). The Mark J. Millard architectural collection, c1993-, v. 1, entry 151
Bookplates of J.B. Bury and Michael Bury.
Library c. 1: imperfect: wanting all preliminaries except t.p. (leaves [ã]1, ẽ1-2, ĩ1-2, and õ1-2).
Library c. 2: lacking blank leaf [ã]1. Binding: late 19th-century French quarter sheep.

Subject:

Architecture Orders.
Architecture Ordres.

Form/genre:

Treatises.

Added entries:

Aviler, Augustin-Charles d', 1653-1701, translator.
Bury, John, 1917-2017, former owner.
Bury, Michael, 1947- former owner.
Coignard, Jean Baptiste, 1638-1689, printer.
Le Pautre, Jean, 1618-1682, engraver.
Mansart, Jules Hardouin, 1645 or 1646-1708, dedicatee.
Aviler, Augustin-Charles d', 1653-1701
Mansart, Jules Hardouin, 1645 or 6-1708

Cinq ordres d'architecture de Vincent Scamozzi

Holdings:

Location: Library cage m 212747
Call No.: NA44.S283.A66 1685
Copy: c. 2
Status: Available

Location: Library main 82836
Call No.: NA44.S283.A66 1685
Copy: c. 1
Status: Available