Vincenzo SCAMOZZI, Augustin Charles D'AVILER,... Lot 156

Vincenzo SCAMOZZI, Augustin Charles D'AVILER, Les Cinq Ordres d'Architecture de Vincent Scamozzi, Vicentin, Architecte de la République de Venise. Tirez du sixième Livre de son Idée générale d'Architecture: avec les planches originales par Augustin Charles D'Aviler, architecte. Paris, Jean Baptiste Coignard, 1685 1 vol. in-folio: 6 f. 143 p. ill. with 36 full-page copper plates (some light marginal spotting). Early nineteenth-century charcoal sketch on the spine of the last plate and on the flyleaf. Bound in full contemporary calf, boards preserved, corners and spine restored, 6-rib spine restored with part of the ornaments preserved in the boxes, as well as the red morocco title-piece "Arch de Davil" Fowler 299. Rare work given by d'Aviler, who here attempts a first adaptation of an Italian work, before finding success with his augmented version of Vignole. Scamozzi, however, remained in the shadow of Palladio and Vignole.