Main entry:

Félibien des Avaux, J.-F. (Jean-François), 1658?-1733.

Title & Author:

Les plans et les descriptions de deux des plus belles maisons de campagne de Pline le consul. : Avec des remarques sur tous ses bâtimens, et une dissertation touchant l'architecture antique & l'architecture gothique. / par M. Félibien des Avaux historiographe du Roy, de ses bâtimens, arts & manufactures de France, & garde des antiques de Sa Majesté.

Publication:

A Paris : Chez Florentin & Pierre Delaulne, ruë S. Jacques, à l'Empereur & au Lion d'or., M. DC. XCIX.

Description:

[12], 189, [23] pages, 7 unnumbered leaves of plates (5 folded) : illustrations, plans ; 12mo

Notes:
Includes Pliny's letters II. 17, V.6 and extracts from others in Latin & Scamozzi's description of the Villa Laurentina from his Idea dell'architettura universale in Italian, both with French translation.
"Description que Pline le consul a faite lui-même de sa maison de campagne, nommée le Laurentin" and "Description que Pline le consul a faite lui-même de sa maison de campagne appellée Tusci, ou maison de Toscane" each have divisional half-t.p. on leaves B1r and H5r respectively; pagination and register continuous.
Colophon at foot of leaf S4r reads: A Paris, de l'imprimerie de Antoine Lambin.
Signatures: ã⁶ A⁶ B-R⁸/⁴ S⁴.
Woodcut title vignette, initials, head- and tail-pieces, marginal notes.
"Additions & corrections" on leaf Q6v.
Includes index at end.
Le Laurentin -- La maison de Toscane -- Dissertation touchant l'architecture antique et l'architecture gothique.

Subject:

Laurentine Villa (Laurentum)
Villa Pliniana (Torno, Italy)
Dwellings Rome Early works to 1800.
Architecture, Domestic Rome Early works to 1800.
Architecture, Classical Early works to 1800.
Architecture, Gothic Early works to 1800.
Architecture Early works to 1800.
Architecture, Roman Early works to 1800.
Dwellings Italy Early works to 1800.
Habitations Rome Ouvrages avant 1800.
Architecture antique Ouvrages avant 1800.
Architecture gothique Ouvrages avant 1800.
Architecture romaine Ouvrages avant 1800.
Habitations Italie Ouvrages avant 1800.
Architecture.
Architecture, Classical.
Architecture, Domestic.
Architecture, Gothic.
Architecture, Roman.
Dwellings.
Italy.
Rome (Empire)

Form/genre:

Early works.

Added entries:

Delaulne, Florentin, publisher.
Delaulne, Pierre, publisher.
Lambin, Antoine, 1643-1699, printer.
Pliny, the Younger. Epistularum libri IX. Selections. French & Latin.
Scamozzi, Vincenzo, 1552-1616. Idea dell'architettura universale. Libro 3. Capo 12. French & Italian.
France Paris.

Holdings:

Location: Library cage y 74883
Call No.: 0006178
Status: Available

Location: Library main y 74882
Call No.: IDY; ID:86-B13002
Status: Available