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ARCHITECTURE/AESTHETICS] - Lot 9
ARCHITECTURE/AESTHETICS] BRISEUX (C.E.)] A Treatise on the Essential Beauty in the Arts, Applied Particularly to Architecture and Demonstrated Physically and Empirically, with a Treatise on Harmonic Proportions, Showing That It Is Solely from These Proportions That Generally Accepted Buildings Derive Their Real and Unchanging Beauty - Included are drawings of these buildings and several others designed by the author based on these proportions, with their various harmonic divisions marked alongside each drawing for easier understanding: the five orders of architecture by the most famous architects, and a demonstration that they are based on these proportions. Several essays by the author on each of these orders, along with instructions on how to execute them according to his principles, and a summary of the history of architecture, Paris: published by the author, Chereau, 1752 One in-4 volume in full cardboard binding covered with marbled paper: 108 pages, 39 plates (incomplete). First edition. Entirely engraved work. Plate 40 is missing. Lacks the frontispiece portrait. Slight damage to the edge of plate 32. Part 1 only.
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