Paris, Melchior Tavernier, 1631.
Livre d'architecture contenant plusieurs portiques de diffntes inventions, sur les cinq orders de colonnes.
Rare first edition of this Mannerist suite of designs for triumphal arches and entrances, by a Florentine who had been invited to the French court by Marie de Medici, became royal engineer to Louis XIII, and built grottos and fountains on the grounds of St. Germain-en-Laye and Fontainebleau. He was..... More