A parallel of the antient architecture with the modern in a collection of ten principal authors who have written upon the five orders ... : the three Greek orders, Dorique, Ionique, and Corinthian, comprise the first part of this treatise, and the two Latine, Tuscan and Composita, the latter / written in French by Roland Freart, sieur de Chambray ; made English for the benefit of builders ; to which is added An account of architects and architecture, in an historical and etymological explanation of certain tearms particularly affected by architects ; with Leon Baptista Alberti's treatise Of statues, by John Evelyn, Esq.

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Translation of: Parallèle de l'architecture antique et de la moderne. Added t.p. engraved: A parallel of architecture both ancient and moderne. Errata: p. 159. Advertisement: p. [1] at end. Reproduction of original in British Library.