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ARCHITECTURE/AESTHETICS]
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ARCHITECTURE/AESTHETICS]
See original version (French)
Estimate €250 - €500
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Description
ARCHITECTURE/AESTHETICS]
BRISEUX (C.E)]
A Treatise on the Essential Beauty in the Arts, Applied Particularly to Architecture, Demonstrated Physically and Empirically, with a Treatise on Harmonic Proportions, Showing that it is from these Proportions Alone that Generally Approved Buildings Derive their Real and Unchanging Beauty - included are drawings of these buildings and several others designed by the author based on these proportions, with their various harmonic divisions marked alongside each drawing for easier understanding: the five orders of architecture by the most famous architects, and it is demonstrated that they are governed by these proportions. Several essays by the author on each of these orders, together with instructions on how to execute them according to his principles, and a summary of the history of architecture, Paris, published by the author, Chereau, 1752
One quarto volume in full cardboard binding covered with marbled paper: 108 pages, 39 plates (incomplete).
First edition. Entirely engraved work.
Plate 40 is missing. Without the frontispiece portrait. Slight damage to the edge of plate 32. Part 1 only.
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