Main entry:

Viel de Saint-Maux, Jean Louis.

Title & Author:

Lettres sur l'architecture des anciens et celle des modernes : dans lesquelles se trouve développé le génie symbolique qui présida aux monuments de l'antiquité / par M. Viel de Saint-Maux, architecte civil & militaire, associé de l'Académie royale des beaux-arts & Architecture navale de Marseille, & correspondant de plusieurs académies.

Publication:

A Paris : [publisher not identified], 1787.

Description:

xii, [250] pages ; 22 cm

Notes:
Consists of seven letters, addressed to different people. Attributed by some to Charles-François Viel de Saint-Maux but believed to be by Jean-Louis Viel de Saint-Maux (cf. BN).
Woodcut headpieces.
Page numbering of individual letters: xij, [3]-28, [3]-24, [3]-36, [3]-48, [3]-36, [3]-32, [3]-60.
Attributed by some to Charles-François Viel but believed to be by Jean-Louis Viel de Saint-Maux (cf. BN).
Page numbering of individual letters: [3]-28, [3]-24, [3]-36, [3]-48, [3]-36, [3]-32, [3]-60.
Library copy: ownership stamp of "Chenavard Arch." on t.p.

Subject:

Architecture Early works to 1800.
Architecture, Ancient Early works to 1800.
Architecture Ouvrages avant 1800.
Architecture antique Ouvrages avant 1800.
Architecture.
Architecture, Ancient.

Form/genre:

Letters (correspondence)
Woodcut (process) headpieces (layout features)
Early works.

Added entries:

Viel, Charles-François, 1745-1819.
Provenance. Chenavard, A. M. (Antoine-Marie), 1787-1883. Ownership stamp.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 79935
Call No.: NA44.V66.A35 1787
Status: Available