[Rarebooks] FS: Evelyn's trans. of Freart's "A Parallel of the Antient Architecture with the Modern" London: 1664

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(ARCHITECTURE) Freart, Roland, Sieur de Chambray (or, Chambray, Roland Freart, Sieur de). A PARALLEL OF THE ANTIENT ARCHITECTURE WITH THE MODERN, in a Collection of Ten Principal Authors Who Have Written Upon the Five Orders, Viz. Palladio and Scamozzi, Serlio and Vignola, D. Barbaro and Cateno, L. B. Alberti and Viola, Bullant and De Lorme, Compared with One Another. The Three Greek Orders, Dorique, Ionique, and Corinthian... and the Two Latine, Tuscan and Composita... Written in French... Made English for the Benefit of Builders... by John Evelyn Esq; Fellow of the Royal Society. London: Printed by Tho. Roycroft, for John Place. 1664. First English language edition. Folio. (25),160pp. (including 1 page of publisher's ad, and A1, the imprimatur leaf). Added engraved title with portrait of Freart. Title page with copper engraved vignette. Illustrated with 42 copper engraved plates (40 full-page), and numerous copper engraved head- & tailpieces. Cont. calf, a bit worn, finely rebacked in period style, red morocco spine label.  An attractive copy.               $3,000.00 (trade discount allowed)
Included in this work is Leon Baptista Alberti's "Treatise of Statues." Wing C1923; Fowler 128; Keynes. EVELYN #74, "Evelyn's most splendid book."

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