Bullet - L'Architecte pratique - 1741

Rare illustrated edition of this treatise on architecture intended to provide practitioners, project managers and informed amateurs with concrete rules for the design and execution of buildings -

The work belongs to the tradition of eighteenth-century technical manuals, where architecture is conceived as an art based on rational, measurable, and transmissible principles -

The author sets out the foundations of construction by addressing materials, proportions, architectural orders, geometric layouts, as well as the methods of elevations of buildings -

He emphasizes the need to combine solidity, utility and harmony, in accordance with the classical ideals inherited from Antiquity and the Renaissance -

The treatise also offers model plans and examples of realizations, serving as a practical guide for the construction of houses, public buildings or urban structures -

Bullet - L'Architecte pratique - 1741 - Delespine -
-> 622 pages

Good condition of the binding, the work in its full brown morocco leather from the period, wear from use, some minor defects on boards and spine, headcaps and folds worn, corners nicked, red edges, spine with ornate raised bands, gilt title on morocco piece, blind-stamped borders framing the boards -

Good interior condition, browning, the work enriched with handsome black illustrations interleaved in the text as well as numerous folding plates, marbled endpapers in acceptable condition -

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