engraving on laid paper, a central vertical fold as issued, contemporary inked page reference ‘No.79’ on verso, just slightly showing through the German title, handling creases in the upper right corner, a few minor printer’s creases, a few faint scattered spots,
Seeligmann (Johann Michael)
Der Fünf Säulen Ordnungen/Desseins des cinq Ordres d'Architecture
£240
Nuremberg, Homann Heirs, 1742.
a double-page architectural plate, this being the first in a series illustrating the classical principles of the ‘Five Orders of Architecture’, comprising numerous enlarged elements of architraves, friezes and cornices, and their harmonious relationship to the supporting columns, which combine to form the entablature, a title banderole, in German and French, with explanatory text, across the top,.
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