ROLAND LE VIRLOYS M.C.F. ( Charles François ). - Lot 54

ROLAND LE VIRLOYS M.C.F. ( Charles François ). Dictionary of architecture, civil, military and naval, antique, ancient and modern, and of all the arts and crafts that depend on it, with all terms expressed in French, Latin, Italian, Spanish, English and German. Enriched with one hundred and one plates of figures in intaglio to facilitate understanding, to which is attached a notice of the most famous architects, engineers, painters, sculptors, engravers and other artists whose principal works are reported, in Paris, by the associated booksellers in 1770. Three In-4 volumes in full contemporary marbled calf, ribbed spine, rich gilded decoration in the boxes, title-pieces I: IV, 648 pp; II: 671 pp; III: 152 pp, 100 plates out of text, then 298 pp, (2). Rare first edition of this sum devoted to architecture. The 100 plates (numbered I to IC and one plate LXI (bis)) are incredibly fresh. They are devoted to the theater of Metz, the different types of architecture: Tuscan, Ionic, Corinthian, Roman or composite order; present series of ornaments, doors, columns, pilasters, interlacing, guilloches, bosses, balustrades, tools, knots, examples of fortifications, and a whole series of signatures of painters and engravers. Ex-libris of Boisset Glassac. Bindings rubbed, corners dulled. Lower spine of volume I split, tomass piece missing on volume I. Joints split on Volume II. Upper spine of volume III split. Complete with plates.