ARCHITECTURE. FRÉARD DE CHAMBRAY (Roland). PARALLÈLE... Lot 5

[ARCHITECTURE]. [FRÉARD DE CHAMBRAY (Roland)]. PARALLÈLE DE L'ARCHITECTURE ANTIQUE ET DE LA MODERNE containing the profiles of the most beautiful buildings of Rome compared with the ten principal authors who wrote of the five Orders; sçavoir Palladio et Scamozzi, Serlio et Vignole, D. Barbaro et Cataneo, L.B. Alberti et Viola, Bullant et de Lorme. P., Jollain, 1689. In-folio marbled brown calf, framed in triple fillet on the boards with gilt arms in the center, ornate ribbed spine, title-piece, corners and one cup rubbed and missing (Binding of the period); (1) bl. f., (4/5) ff. including title, 100 pages. Heads missing, leather missing from 2 nerves, corners dulled, one cut open, endpaper and first 4 ff. roughly pasted down, some black ink stains in text margins and soiling, blank ff. covered with drawings and scribbles, MISSING last leaf of preface. Old autograph signature in margin of title page. SECOND EDITION, enlarged. The 100 numbered pages are fully engraved: they contain the text and 44 full-page ENGRAVINGS, as well as copper-engraved head and tailpieces. A COPY BEARING THE ARMS OF SAMUEL BERNARD (1651-1739). AS IS. ¶ OHR, 1042, iron 1 - Brunet, I-1762.