ANDROUET DU CERCEAU (Jacques). Book of architecture... Lot 2

ANDROUET DU CERCEAU (Jacques). Book of architecture in which are contained various orders of Plants and elevations of bastions for Lords, Gentlemen, and others who will want to baste in the fields. Paris, at the home of the Widow François Langlois, dict Chartres, 1648. In folio of 26-[53] leaves, soft ivory vellum (binding of the period). The most important work of the famous architect of the second half of the 16th century, and rightly considered as the most beautiful architectural anthology of the French Renaissance! This is the fourth edition of what is in fact the third architectural book by Androuet Du Cerceau. It is complete with its 65 brass engraved on 53 plates numbered I-XXXVIII. 2 plates discreetly restored at the time, surveyor's stamp at the bottom of the title. Good ex.