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A parallel of the antient architecture with the modern, in a collection of ten principal authors who have written upon the five orders ... To which is added An account of architects and architecture, in an ... explanation of certain tearms ... affected by architects. With Leon Baptista Alberti's treatise Of statues. Made English for the benefit of builders by John Evelyn.London, Printed by T. Roycroft for J. Place, 1664.156 (i. e. 159) p. illus., port. 35 cm.
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Fréart, Roland, sieur de Chambray, 1606-1676.
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