A treatise of the five orders of columns in architecture, Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian and composite : wherein the proportions and characters of the members of their several pedestals, columns and entablatures, are distinctly consider'd with respect to the practice of the antients and moderns. Also a most natural, easie and practicable method laid down for determining the most minute part in all the oders, without a fraction. To which is annex'd a Discource concerning pilasters: and of several abuses introduced into architecture. Engraven on six folio plates of several orders, adorn'd with twenty-four borders, as many initial letters, and a like number of tail-pieces / by John Sturt. Written in French by Claude Perrault, of the Royal academy of Paris, author of celebrated commen on Vitruvius. Made English by John James of Greenwich.

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Perrault, Claude, 1613-1688.

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Publication:

London : Printed by B. Motte, sold by J. Sturt, 1708.

Description:

3 preliminary leaves, [7], xxi, [1], 131, [4] pages, 6 plates : folio

Notes:
Head-pieces, end-pieces, initials. Engr. dedication.
Microfilm. New Haven, Conn. : Research Publications, 1971. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (American architectural books supplement : based on the Helen Park List ; reel 10, no. A66).

Subject:

Architecture Orders.
Architecture Early works to 1800.
Architecture Ordres.
Architecture Ouvrages avant 1800.
Architecture.

Form/genre:

Early works.
Booksellers' advertisements England London Sturt, John, 1708.

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American architectural books supplement : based on the Helen Park list.

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Location: Library study room microform 48119
Call No.: ID87B7159s124
Status: Available

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