Verhandeling over de bouwkunde, met de noodige aanmerkingen en waarneemingen, door Sebastiaan Le Clerc, roomsch ridder, teekenaar en plaatsnyder van Lodewyk den XIV. Koning van Frankryk, enz. enz. enz. Uit het Frans vertaald door P.E. Duyvené.
by LE CLERC, SEBASTIAN
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Amsterdam, bij de Erven Gartman, n.d. (between 1818 and 1833). 4to. 2 vols. Volume one: text. (x), 92 pp. (light waterstain in top corner of first ten pages) Volume two: 182 engraved plates. Half green morocco, paste paper boards. Yellow edges, speckled green. (corners a bit rubbed).
Dutch translation of Le Clerc's 'Traité d'architecture, avec des remarques et des observations très utiles pour les jeunes gens qui veuilent s'appliquer à ce bel art'. This was first published in Paris in 1714. The work was translated into Dutch in 1781 by Pierre Esaie Duyvené, himself an architect. It was also he who copied the engravings. He explains in the introduction that he tried to get enough prints from the original plates but after learning that the plates did not exist anymore he found himself obliged to do the engravings for his edition himself. He says that he was fully aware that a professional engraver would have produced better plates but that, as they were not supposed to be art but more technical illustrations, he undertook the engraving himself. [not in RIBA].
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- Verhandeling over de bouwkunde, met de noodige aanmerkingen en waarneemingen, door Sebastiaan Le Clerc, roomsch ridder, teekenaar en plaatsnyder van Lodewyk den XIV. Koning van Frankryk, enz. enz. enz. Uit het Frans vertaald door P.E. Duyvené.
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- LE CLERC, SEBASTIAN
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- Publisher
- Erven Gartman
- Place of Publication
- Amsterdam
- Date Published
- (between 1818 & 1833)
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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