[Architecture. Le Clerc] Verhandeling over de bouwkunde,

met de nodige aanmerkingen en waarneemingen: door Sebastiaan le Clerc. Roomsch ridder, teekenaar en plaatsnyder van Lodewyk den XIV, koning van Frankrijk, enz. enz. enz. Uit het Fransch vertaald: door P.E. Duyvené. Gedrukt voor reekening van den vertaler. Amsterdam, J. Smit en Zoon & W. Vermandel, 1781, 2 parts in one vol.: part 1 (text part): (8),92 p.; part 2 (plate part): engraved title, unnumbered intertitle and 182 numbered plates (incl. 1 intertitle), plain contemporary halfleather, 4to.

Small wormholes to plates 113-182; last few plates and endpapers sl. affected by damp; plate quire with numbers 145-148 misbound. Acceptable copy. First Dutch edition of this often-imitated classic by Sébastien Le Clerc (1637-1714). The many plates depict the classical orders and their specific application to smaller architectural elements. An undated title edition (identical except for the title having been replaced and a half title added) was issued by Hendrik Gartman (1771-1818), see the following number.