The Library of the Earls of Macclesfield removed from Shirburn Castle: Part 2 Science A-C

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Aviler, Augustin Charles d' (1653-1700).

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  • Aviler, Augustin Charles d' (1653-1700).
Cours d'architecture qui comprend les ordres de Vignole, avec des commentaires, les figures & descriptions de ses plus beaux bâtimens, & ceux de Michel-Ange... avec une ample explication par ordre alphabetique de tous les termes. Paris: Nicolas Langlois, 1691

Literature

BAL RIBA 155 (also lacking Zz1); Berlin Catalogue 2388; Fowler 32

Catalogue Note

first edition. D'Aviler was a practising architect, appointed to the academy of architecture in Rome in 1673, who employed a strictly classical style. This commentary on Giacomo Barozzi (known as Vignola), together with a dictionary of architectural terms, was reissued by Langlois in 1694.