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• Philibert de L'Orme - Le Premier Tome de L'Architecture [All

  

  The volume may be referenced as follows: mortimer, harvard college library catberliner ornamentstichkatalog ; pettegree, french vernacular books ; cfphilibert de l’orme“de l’orme’s text systematically traces the process of building, from the choice to the smallest decorative detailsplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitewithout the blank ê6 (as usual), but including 2 unnumbered leaves at the end, which are rarely present, though second leaf trimmed close to text and laid down on the final blank (without loss)355) describing the illustrations of this splendid volume, mortimer writes: “among the buildings shown in detail are the château of anet, built by de l’orme for diane de poitiers, in his capacity as royal architect to henri ii, and de l’orme’s own house in parisa diminutive ex-libris to front pastedown of count giacomo manzoni (), a prominent italian book collector and bibliographerthis is the most influential and most lavishly illustrated handbook of french renaissance architectureare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawiki] a device on leaf i3v depict[s] the architect as a learned man, relying for support on serpent-twined compasses as he moves cautiously from a cave of contemplation to a palm tree symbolizing the honor of his profession] the good architect, with three eyes and four hands, is speaking to a young apprentice in a garden, with classical buildings in the backgroundoccasional light browning and some soiling (mainly marginal), a few minor ink smudgesthe first represents the incompetent architect as a figure without hands and eyes, in a harsh landscape settinga few leaves with some early manuscript marginalia; title page with a couple of early ownership signatures inked outin the second cut [” manuscript acquisition note in french by marquis pierfrancesco palmucci [de pellicani], datedthe second volume of the architecture proposed by de l’orme at the end of the dedication and again at the end of the text, was never published” (gelli, ex libris italiani, pgi, ; fowler architectat the end of the volume this idea is developed further in a summary of the attributes of the architect based on two full-page woodcuts on leaves eee1r and eee3rin all, a nice, genuine example of this rare work, exceptionally tall with very wide margins355; brunet, suppleit is characteristic of de l’orme’s approach to his subject that he should include among the illustrations three allegorical woodcuts concerned with the figure of the architect and the philosophy of a profession for which de l’orme himself was the first french spokesmana second volume was planned by the author but never completedfrench 16th-century books, nobinding rubbed with some wear to extremitiescatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available‘le premier tome de l’architectureseveral minor marginal repairs not affecting text; leaf o3 with a tear slightly affecting the bottom of woodcut on verso, but without loss, repaired in blank portion of rectoadams l and millard french i, 105 (citing nd issue)his style is as much personal, as theoretical, and his comments on relations between patron and architect or on the practical problems involved in certain structures are based on his own experiencefrench 16th-century books, nomanzoni’s engraved bookplate is remarkable for being "one of the smallest ever regularly used as a bookplate99; clouzot, philibert de l’orme, ppour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storebound in 19thcentury quarter-vellum over marbled boards; spine decorated and lettered in gilt; edges giltillustrated with 205 large woodcuts, including 74 full-page and 7 double-page blocks; magnificent allegorical woodcut title border; large woodcut head-pieces and large floriated and grotesque woodcut initials; leaf i4 slightly taller than the rest of the text block, to accommodate a tall column woodcut, with about 2 cm section at top folded inin addition, this work is a major source for biographical information on de l’orme” (mortimer, harvard college librpalmucci was an 18th-century italian aristocrat, jurist and antiquarian from macerata, who superintended the publication of an essay on medieval bronzes “delle tessere cavalleresche di bronzo tenute al collo” (florence, )paris: fédéric morelthe first and only published volumethe greatest book of architecture of the french renaissance and the most beautifully illustrated the first edition, first issue, with the two very rare unnumbered leaves at the volume's end

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  Action & adventurein individual cases, it can happen that a book deviates from the edition statedwe try to assess the exact condition of the goods as objectively as possiblechildren's music & audio stories

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