Main entry:

Boffrand, Germain, 1667-1754.

Title & Author:

Livre d'architecture contenant les principes generaux de cet art, et les plans, elevations et profils de quelques-uns des batimens faits en France & dans les pays etrangers, par le sieur Boffrand, architecte du Roy ... Ouvrage françois et Latin, enrichi de planches en taille-douce.

Publication:

A Paris, Chez Guillaume Cavelier pere, rue Saint Jacques, au Lys d'or. M. DCCXLV.

Description:

3 preliminary leaves, 99, [1] pages LXIX plates (68 double; including 21 plans) 43 cm

Notes:
Added title page in Latin: De architectura liber.
Many plates by Pierre François Tardieu and Jacques-François Blondel, with others by Johann Baptist Babel, Quirijn Fonbonne, Antoine Hérisset, Jean-Laurent Legeay, Claude Lucas, J. de la Marcade, Pierre Moreau, Mutel.
T.p. vignettes, that on French t.p. signed V.L.S. Jr. (Vincent Le Sueur?). Engraved head-piece at dedication by Tardieu after François Boucher. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces.
Cicognara, 440-1
French and Latin in parallel columns.

Subject:

Architecture Designs and plans Early works to 1800.
Architecture Dessins et plans Ouvrages avant 1800.
Architecture

Form/genre:

engravings (prints)
etchings (prints)
Early works
Architectural drawings
Etchings.
Gravures.
Eaux-fortes (Gravures)

Added entries:

Tardieu, Pierre François, 1711-1771.
Blondel, Jacques-François, 1705-1774.
Boucher, François, 1703-1770.
Cavelier, Guillaume, -1751.
France Paris.

Added title page in Latin: De architectura liber

Holdings:

Location: Library cage m 65293
Call No.: 8103
Status: Available