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PERRET, Jacques Des fortifications et artifices, architecture et perspective. 1620Paris ?,s.n.,large folio, mod. quarter leather, sp. paper on sides, gilt titled spine on 10 raised bands, [31 (of 33?)] ff. (marginal dampstaining, lacking printed...
Estimation :
400 / 600
Adjudication :
450 €
Description
(text) ff. B & C). Very good copy.
Final ed. of Perret’s (1540?-1619?) book on military architecture, 1st publ. 1601, with a revised dedication to the king dated July 1, 1620. Contains 1 engr. title by Thomas de Leu, 9 (of 11) ff. with annotations, 20 double-page engr. maps and designs of buildings and armour (mostly by De Leu), and 1 f. with the dedication ‘Au Roy’. É. d’Orgeix (www.architectura.cesr.univ-tours.fr.) : "The texts are incomplete. Only seven of the eleven annotations indicated from A to L (without the letter J) exist and their alphabetical sequence does not correspond to the one in the first edition. The iconography is just as incomplete with many gaps. The organization of the plates does not depend on any editorial logic. Consulting various copies dated 1620 (the INHA library - Rare book collection Jacques Doucet, Paris ; BnF-Library of the Arsenal, Paris ; the library of the Historical Society of French Protestantism, Paris ; Canadian Center of Architecture, Montreal) reveals great diversity in the copies, none of which is organized in the same way as any other". The present copy has 9 of the 11 annotations! Old armorial bookpl. Lord Walpole of Woolterton.
Final ed. of Perret’s (1540?-1619?) book on military architecture, 1st publ. 1601, with a revised dedication to the king dated July 1, 1620. Contains 1 engr. title by Thomas de Leu, 9 (of 11) ff. with annotations, 20 double-page engr. maps and designs of buildings and armour (mostly by De Leu), and 1 f. with the dedication ‘Au Roy’. É. d’Orgeix (www.architectura.cesr.univ-tours.fr.) : "The texts are incomplete. Only seven of the eleven annotations indicated from A to L (without the letter J) exist and their alphabetical sequence does not correspond to the one in the first edition. The iconography is just as incomplete with many gaps. The organization of the plates does not depend on any editorial logic. Consulting various copies dated 1620 (the INHA library - Rare book collection Jacques Doucet, Paris ; BnF-Library of the Arsenal, Paris ; the library of the Historical Society of French Protestantism, Paris ; Canadian Center of Architecture, Montreal) reveals great diversity in the copies, none of which is organized in the same way as any other". The present copy has 9 of the 11 annotations! Old armorial bookpl. Lord Walpole of Woolterton.
