by (FELIBIEN DES AVAUX, Jean Francois.)
(FELIBIEN DES AVAUX, Jean Francois). RECUEIL HISTORIQUE DE LA VIE ET DES OUVRAGES DES PLUS CELEBRES ARCHITECTES. Paris: Sebastien Mabre-Cramoisy, 1687. 4to. Contemporary calf. (xvi), 249, ( pages. First edition. [Fowler, 282]. Felibien's examination of the architects from classical antiquity through the middle ages is best known for its final chapter, the first serious attempt to examine the architects who built the great Gothic cathedrals of France in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Edge professionally reinforced else ver good.
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