BLONDEL François : - Cours D'Architecture enseigné dans L'Academie Royale d'Architecture. Première Partie ...(Quatrième, Cinqième et Dernière Partie). Seconde édition, augmentée & corrigé.

Paris, chez l'auteur, Amsterdam, chez Pierrez Mortier, 1698, in-folio, 353 x 242 mm, 5 parts in one volume. (I) Engraved frontispiece (De la Bossière) + title printed in red and black + (22)nn pp with 2 engraved vignettes + 152 pp + (4)nn pp (table) + 1 folding plate + xxiv full page engraved plates (numbered I-XXIV) ; (Seconde et troisième Partie) ; engraved frontispiece + title printed in red and black +(4)nn pp + (176) pp + (4)(errata) + pp 177- 312 pp +(2)(errata), with numerous woodcut and engraved illustrations in the text ; (Quatrième et Cinquième et Dernière Partie); engraved frontispiece + title printed in red and black (6)nn pp (imprimeur au lecteur, table) + pp 313 - 799 + (1)(engraved printer's mark) + (1)(errata) + (1)(bl) with numerous woodcut and engraved illustrations in the text. Collation identical to Fowler pp 36. Bound in contemporary full vellum, edges painted red. Binding with some slight soiling, interior fine apart from some slight browning or staining at some pages and a small paper restoration at the title. Very fine copy of the second edition of Blondel's famous course. This second edition is in fact no more than a re-issue of the sheets of the first edition (1675-1683) with the omission of the privileges.. .