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VIEL DE SAINT MAUX, Jean Louis (fl. 1779--87)
Lettres sur l'architecture des anciens, et celle des modernes, dans lesquelles se trouve développé le génie symbolique qui présida aux monumens de l'antiquité. Par M. Viel de Saint-Maux, architecte civil & militaire, associé de l'Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts & Architecture navale de Marseilles, ...
A Paris (Place), 1787.
xii, 28, 24, 36, 48, 36, 32, 60 p. ; 19.8 cm. (8º)

The first six letters were published separately, each with its own title-page, between 1779 and 1784 in Brussels and Paris. A final seventh letter was added to the collected edition published in 1787. Each section has its own pagination and register. The author, a French Freemason not to be confused with the architect Charles-François Viel de Saint Maux (1745--1819), is indebted here to the Baron d'Hancarville's Recherches sur l'origine, l'esprit et les progrès des arts de la Grèce, 1785 (q.v.) which Soane studied intensively. See David Watkin, 'Freemasonry and Sir John Soane, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, vol. 54, no. 4 (December 1995), pp. 402--417.

Copy Notes Bought from T. & W. Boone for 4s. on 23 September 1825. (Spiers Box). The sixth letter is inscribed on p. 10 with a marginal note in pencil.

Binding C18th quarter mottled sheep, paste-paper boards, green corners, gilt-tooled spine, red vellum spine-label.

Reference Number 3502

Additional Names T. & W.$Boone


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