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Period 16th century

Subject Terms Architecture -- Designs and plans -- Early works to 1800.

1. De architectura Iacobi Androuetii du Cerceau, opus : quo descriptae sunt aedificiorum quinquaginta planè dissimilium ichnographiae, in omnium non modò potentiorum, sed etiam mediocrium & tenuiorum gratia[m], quos aedificandi studium oblectat: adiunctâ vsus & commoditatis in habitationibus singulis expositione, vnà cum integra cuisque aedificij dimensione. Hûc accedit breuis explicatio de structurarum, quibus aedifica constant, dimensione per orgyiam, que Gallica est architectorum mensura, sex longa pedes: quâ certè methodo nemo non aedificia quaevis metiri, & futuri in aedificando sumptus rationem secum inire poterit ...

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Creator:: Androuet du Cerceau, Jacques, active 1549–1584
Date:: 1559
Physical Description:: [32] pages, [69] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 39 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts