Les cinq rangs de l'architecture, a scavoir, tuscane, dorique, ionique, corinthiaque et composee :
avec l'instruction fondamentale /
faicte par Henry Hondius ; avec encores quelques belles ordonnances d'architecture, mises en perspective, inventees par Iean Vredeman Frison & son fils, & taillees par le dit H. Hondius ; de nouveau reveues & corrigees, fort serviables & utiles, pour la fortification & autres usages.

Description

Main Author

Hondius, Hendrik, 1573-

Related Names

Vredeman de Vries, Paul, 1567-1630.
Vredeman de Vries, Hans, 1527-approximately 1604.

Language(s)

French

Published

A Amsterdam : Chez Iean Ianson marchand libraire, l'an 1617.

Subjects

Architecture > Architecture / Orders > Architecture / Orders / Early works to 1800.
Engravings > Engravings / Netherlands > Engravings / Netherlands / 17th century.

Note

Blank leaves associated with letterpress text leaves have not been included in pagination.
Woodcut t.p. vignette. The 60 leaves of plates represent 30 double-page ill., tipped in at the center fold. Some images appear in shaded and reversed outline versions. The legends of plates FF-KK refer to the five senses as well as the five orders. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces, initials.
First published in 1606 in Dutch, followed by Latin, French & German versions. See Hollstein.

Physical Description

[18] p., [60] leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 cm. (fol.)

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