Lot of seven volumes including: - Lot 1

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Lot of seven volumes including: - Lot 1
Lot of seven volumes including: - ANONYMOUS. Les vingt cinq codes français, Lebailly, Paris, 1839 in-12 855 pages. - JOSEPH F. Complete works of Flavius Josephus. Buchon. Published in 1838 by A. Desrez. 878 pages. - BULLET, M. Architecture pratique, qui comprend la construction générale et particulière des bâtiments, le détail, toise et devis de chaque partie, etc. New edition revised and corrected by M. Paris, Hérissant 1755. in-8. XVI-512 pp. Marbled calf, spine ornamented (period binding). - BAROZZIO VIGNOLE, J. New book of the five orders of architecture. Enriched with various Cartels, and Pieces of Architectures, Portraits, Fountains, Baldaquins &. The whole necessary to the Artists. Paris : Daumont, [c. 1760-1780]. One folio volume: 24 x 36 cm. Originally contains 44 architectural plates engraved by Poulleau and Le Canu (including a title page): Title page missing. Beautiful internal engravings of St Pierre de Rome, of the Sorbonne, of the Invalides, of St Pierre de Rome.... - LE MUET P. Traité des cinq ordres d'architecture augmenté de Nouvelles inventions pour l'art de bien bâtir. à Paris, chez Langlois dit Chartres, marchand libraire, 1645. in-8 bound, dim : 170 x 120mm, full calf of the time. Very numerous architectural figures engraved in full page. Cover torn off. A work that has a considerable influence until today. Pierre le Muet (1591-1669), engineer-architect of the court of Louis XIII is specialized in fortification works. From the 1620s he devoted himself to writing and translated Barozzi da Vignola's work, then Palladio's in 1645. Pierre le Muet can be considered as one of the best architects of his time with François Mansart, Louis le Vau and Jacques Lemercier. - SPIELMANN, JR. Instituts de Chymie, translated from Latin, on the second edition by M. Cadet, Jeune. Chez Vincent, 1770. 2 volumes in-12, half brown basane with corners, smooth spine, gilt roulettes, XXIV- 504- 500 pp. Binding a little rubbed. First French edition of this work containing the first major bibliography of chemistry. The lineage of the Spielmanns, apothecaries who owned from father to son the Cerf pharmacy in front of the Strasbourg cathedral, illustrates the past role of pharmacists in chemistry. The whole not collated. Bindings worn. [7] [7]
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