ANTOINE (Jean). Traité d'architecture, ou Proportions des tr - Lot 170

ANTOINE (Jean). Traité d'architecture, ou Proportions des trois ordres grecs, sur un module de douze parties. Trèves, De l'Imprimerie électorale de Son Altesse Sérénissime ; Nancy, N. Gervois ; Metz, Marchal, 1768. In-4, stiff half vellum with brown basane corners, spine decorated (period binding). Unique edition of this rare treatise, with 5 plates out of text and numerous full-page plates and figures in the text, some of which depict buildings or the topography of Lorraine (plan de Toul, plan de la place royale de Metz, etc.). Architect and surveyor of the Metz département, Jean Antoine had been appointed architect to the Elector of Trier, for whom he built Wittlich Castle (destroyed during the French Revolution). Some marginal wetness, a transverse tear restored on pp. 99-100.