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an old book with drawings of different types of doors and windows
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697 - Aviler, Augustin Charles de
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Aviler, Augustin Charles de A Comprehensive Guide to the Entire Art of Civil Architecture, in which, alongside the biographies and the five orders of J. Bar. de Vignola, as well as his own and those of the famous Mich. Angelo, everything that may be encountered in architecture … is explained and … elucidated. Translated into German by L. Chr. Sturm. With an engraved frontispiece, 68 (of which 40 are double-sheet size and 18 are folded) copper plates and 86 (of which 84 are full-sheet size) text plates. Augsburg, Wolff, 1725. 4°. 15 leaves, 402 pp., 13 leaves of contemporary half-leather (shabby and somewhat stained; spine renewed with cloth). 2nd German edition, expanded by several copperplate engravings, of this richly illustrated work on architecture, which was regarded as the finest work on architectural scholarship in France for over a century. - Cf. Berliner Ornamentstichkatalog 2391 (first edition 1699) and Fowler 32f. (French edition) - The copper plates feature illustrations of portals, fireplaces, garden plans, stoves, balustrades and staircases. In addition, there are elevations of buildings, columns, capitals, etc., as well as structures by Michelangelo and Vignola. This richly illustrated architectural treatise from the Baroque Augsburg publishing scene offers one of the most important German-language summaries of classical architectural theory of the 18th century. It is based on the famous *Cours d’architecture* by the French royal architect Augustin-Charles d’Aviler, which was first published in Paris in 1691 and was regarded throughout Europe as the standard textbook on architectural theory. The German version was translated by the eminent architect and architectural theorist Leonhard Christoph Sturm (1669–1719) and expanded with numerous personal annotations and additional drawings, following the publication of an initial translation by Huguetan in Amsterdam as early as 1699. At the heart of the work lie the five orders of columns according to Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, the great architect of the Italian Renaissance, whose *Regola delli cinque ordini d’architettura* had been regarded as the standard work on the theory of columns since the 16th century. The account is supplemented by biographical sketches and a detailed discussion of the most distinguished buildings by Vignola and Michelangelo, enabling the book to serve both as a practical guide to construction and as an art-historical compendium of Renaissance and Baroque architecture. - Bookplate on the inside cover, occasionally slightly stained, some plates browned at the centre fold, 1 double-page plate only half present. Second German edition, expanded with several additional plates, of this richly illustrated architectural work, which for over a century was regarded as the finest treatise on architectural science in France. Cf. Berliner Ornamentstichkatalog 2391 (first edition, 1699) and Fowler 32f. (French edition). The copperplates depict portals, mantelpieces, garden plans, stoves, railings and staircases, together with elevations of buildings, columns, capitals and the like, as well as structures by Michelangelo and Vignola. This richly illustrated architectural treatise from the Baroque Augsburg publishing industry offers one of the most important German-language compendia of classical building theory from the eighteenth century. It is based on the celebrated *Cours d’architecture* by the French royal architect Augustin-Charles d’Aviler, which was first published in Paris in 1691 and was regarded throughout Europe as the standard textbook on architectural theory. The German version was translated by the eminent architect and architectural theorist Leonhard Christoph Sturm (1669–1719) and expanded with numerous notes of his own as well as additional plates, following an earlier translation published by Huguetan in Amsterdam in 1699. At the heart of the work lie the five orders of columns as defined by Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, the great architect of the Italian Renaissance, whose *Regola delli cinque ordini d’architettura* had been regarded as the standard work on the theory of the orders since the sixteenth century. The text is supplemented by biographies and a detailed discussion of the principal buildings by Vignola and Michelangelo, enabling the book to serve both as a practical guide to building and as an art-historical compendium of Renaissance and Baroque architecture. Bookplate on the inside cover, occasionally slightly stained; several plates have browned along the centre fold; one double-page plate is only half present.
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