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96a. Perrault, Claude.

ORDONNANCE / DES CINQ ESPECES / DE COLONNES / SELON
LA METHODE / DES ANCIENS. / Par M. PERRAVLT de
l'Academie Royale des / Sciences, Docteur en Medecine de la Faculté /
de Paris. / A PARIS, / Chez JEAN BAPTISTE COIGNARD Imprimeur
& Libraire / ordinaire du Roy, ruë S. Jacques, à la Bible d'or. /
M. DC. LXXXIII. / AVEC PRIVILEGE DE SA MAJESTÉ.

Folio. Title page (1 leaf); dedication (2 leaves); license, (1 leaf);
preface (i-xxvii); table of contents (xxviii); text (1-124); 6 engraved
plates.

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Plate CIX. From No. 95. Headpiece.

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Plate CX. From No. 95. "Colonne Ludovise," from a project for the Place Dauphine
(Pl. XLIII).

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The engravers were Louis de Chastillon (see No. 36); Sébastien Le
Clerc (see Nos. 36 and 69); and Pierre Le Pautre (see No. 36).

Claude Perrault (1613-88) was educated as both a mathematician
and a physician. He continued in both fields all his life and, indeed, died
of a malady contracted while dissecting a camel at the Jardin du Roi.
He was the architect of both the east colonnade of the Louvre and the
Observatory and became a member of the Académie Royale d'Architecture.

He tells how he organized his book:

This edition was the first for this work, but it was later translated
into English and quotations will be given primarily from that version
(see No. 96b). Jefferson ordered this French edition for the University
in the section on "Architecture" of the want list, and it was received but
did not survive. The present copy is a recent acquisition, the gift of the
Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation.

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