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15 - BLONDEL. VIGNOLE.
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Estimate €200 - €300
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BLONDEL. VIGNOLE. [18th-century architecture – Engraved suites]. LOT of 3 titles. 2 parts in a single contemporary in-8 volume and 2 small folio volumes in temporary ‘tourbillon’-style paper covers. - BLONDEL, Jacques-François. [Plates] from the Course in Architecture containing the lectures given in 1750 and subsequent years Paris: Desaint, 1771. Marbled and polished fawn calfskin of the period, ribbed spine decorated with gilded floral panels, garnet title label and green volume number, gilt title, gilt roulette on the edges, red edges (corners and edges rubbed, scuff marks on the clasps, tail cap worn down but interior generally fresh). A fine copy. A collection of plates from the first two in-8 volumes of the *Cours d’architecture* comprising (3) folios, 22 black-and-white copperplate engravings and (1) folio, 93 black-and-white copperplate engravings. That is, 115 plates, including numerous fold-out plates, engraved in black on copper by Milsan, Michelinot, Le Roi, Ransonnet and VIGNOLE. -Livre nouveau, ou Règles des cinq ordres d’architecture Newly revised, corrected and expanded by Monsieur B***,... With several passages from Michelangelo, Vitruvius and Mansard In Paris, published by Chereau, 1761. Small folio (42 x 29 cm), 30 plates (including the frontispiece and the ‘Notice to the Reader’), in a marbled temporary cover (very slight marginal foxing). Including the fine frontispiece title page engraved on copper by Vasseur after Cochin, and a ‘Notice to the Reader’ drawn and engraved by Babel. The 28 plates are engraved by Charpentier after Cochin, Babel, Poulot and Marvi. - *Le Grand et Nouveau Vignole*. Small folio. With a contemporary half-leather binding of the same style.
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Auction time 10/30/2026 at 2:00 PM
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