Deux Exemples Des Cinq Ordres de L'architecture Antique, et des quatre plus Excelens Autheurs qui en ont traitte, Ascavoir, Palladio, Scamozzi, Serlio, et Vignole. Avec plusieurs plans et Elevations particulieres, Ouvrage tres Necessaire, aux Peintres, Sculpteurs, Menuisiers, Massons, et autres LE BLOND, [Jean] - Peintre du Roy en son Academie Royale Antiquarian,Architecture,French Books

First edition of an uncommon title. Contemporary full mottled calf. Five raised bands; decorative spine gilt; board edge gilt. Entirely engraved internally, with 55 architectural engravings on 53 plates. Firmly bound. Small loss to head and to bottom of front board; toning to edges of endpapers and light staining to top of first 7 leaves, unaffecting text. Shadow of a crest to front endpapers. Jean Le Blond was the King's painter and engraver, father to Jean-Baptiste Alexandre Le Blond (1679-1719). His son, Jean-Baptiste, went on to build several private mansions in Paris, the Clermont hotel, the Vendome hotel, as well as the archiepiscopal palace of Auch; later becoming chief architect of St. Petersburg. Diagrams of the antique and modern orders are accompanied by a short text. The orders are laid out standing, with or without a pedestal, and laid out as colonnades and arcades according to the principle in Vignola's Regola and in Palladio's Quattro libri. He also adds a corner capital from the Temple of Portunus, and a sarcophagus from the Pantheon; a balustrade from the Luxembourg, a scabelone from the Louvre and a French order with dolphins and fleur de lis. A VG clean copy of this architectural work in a contemporary binding. Binding 20.5 cm tall. Small 8vo.