Claude-Mathieu Delagardette  (c.1720-1775) & Jacopo Baroz...

"REGLES DES CINQ ORDRES D'ARCHITECTURE DE VIGNOLE. OUVRAGE DANS LEQUEL ON DONNE: UNE IDEE DE LA GEOMETRIE ; LES DEFINITIONS DES FIGURES GEOMETRIQUES NECESSAIRES A L'ETUDE DE L'ARCHITECTURE ; LA FORMATION DES ORDRES, RIGOUREUSEMENT DEMONTREE, DANS L'ORIGINE DE L'ARCHITECTURE ; LEUR DIVISION GENERALE ; LES PROPORTIONS PARTICULIERES A CHACUN D'EUX ; LES DIFFERENCES QUI LES CARACTERISENT ; UNE METHODE FACILE POUR LES DESSINER ; LES DETAILS D'UN ORDRE-DORIQUE DE POESTUM, MESURES PAR L'AUTEUR, SUR LES LIEUX MEMES ; ENFIN, LES NOTIONS NECESSAIRES SUR LES ORDRES APPELLES ACCESSOIRES. CET OUVRAGE A ...

      "Description: [large 4to] 40 pp., 50 engraved plates : 24 pp. , (25 +1) engraved plates. ARCHITECTURE. The work is a commentary of the famed Five Orders of Architecture by mannerist architect Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola by the French architect Claude-Mathieu Delagardette. Jacopo da Vignola (1507-1573) was the most important representative of Bramantesque classicism in the mid-16th century, and his treatise on the architectural orders was one of the most influential textbooks ever published. This edition contains 50 finely sculpted full page engraved plates of architectural designs and projects realized by C.M.Delagardette, Moisy, Guitte and others based on the designs of Vignola to illustrate the Five Orders of Architecture. This is the second extended edition of this illustrative work by Delagardette ( 1st ed. 1786) whose set of plates was entirely recast and enriched by some other new including the ones on the Pantheon in Rome and his architectural details. The work also includes the Treatise on the Shadows ( ‘Les lecons elementaires des Ombres dans l'architecture, demontrees par des principes puises dans la nature’) by C.M.Delagardette accompanied by 25 engraved copper plates and a finely sculpted second frontispiece. Nice copy, with very fresh crisp interiors, especially the engraved plates with wide untrimmed margins, late binding in XVIII century style “cartonato alla rustica” with handmade heavy paper and labels on spine.Nice copy in good antiquarian conditionsCfr.: FOWLER, The Fowler Architectural Collection of the Johns Hopkins University. Baltimora , (1961), 379; W.BATES, Bibliography of Archaeological Books , American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 21, No. 2 (Apr. - Jun., 1917), pp. 241-254; BVB VERBUND, Bibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians, Universität München , BV 014300681."