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An abridgment of the architecture of Vitruvius. : Containing a system of the whole works of that author. Illustrated with divers copper plates, curiously engraved; with a table of explanation, to which is added in this edition the etymology and derivation of the terms used in architecture. first done in French by Monsr Perrault, of the Academy of Paris, and now Englished, with additions

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1692.
Call number: 346110
Creator: Vitruvius Pollio(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: 8vo
Associated people: Perrault, Claude, (1613-1688.); Kip, Johannes, (1653-1722.)
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