Lot 192
Architecture.- Gerbier (Sir Balthazar) A Brief Discourse Concerning the Three chief Principles of Magnifiecnt Building. Viz Solidity, Conveniency, and Ornament, first edition, 1662.
Hammer Price: £1,500
Description
Architecture.- Gerbier (Sir Balthazar) A Brief Discourse Concerning the Three chief Principles of Magnifiecnt Building. Viz Solidity, Conveniency, and Ornament, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece trimmed, pages trimmed affecting some pagination/headlines and a couple of letters on title, some soiling, later half calf, rubbed, [Wing G540], 8vo, Printed by A. M. and are to be sold by Richard Lowns...Thomas Heath...and Matthew Collins, 1662.
⁂ Provenance: Goodman (ink name on recto of portrait); Ambrose M. Poynter (bookplate).
Description
Architecture.- Gerbier (Sir Balthazar) A Brief Discourse Concerning the Three chief Principles of Magnifiecnt Building. Viz Solidity, Conveniency, and Ornament, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece trimmed, pages trimmed affecting some pagination/headlines and a couple of letters on title, some soiling, later half calf, rubbed, [Wing G540], 8vo, Printed by A. M. and are to be sold by Richard Lowns...Thomas Heath...and Matthew Collins, 1662.
⁂ Provenance: Goodman (ink name on recto of portrait); Ambrose M. Poynter (bookplate).
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