£375
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | 644
Auction: 23 June 2021 at 11:00 BST
A Treatise on the Five Orders of Architecture. London: for the Author, 1787, First edition, folio, title and text in English and French, 22 sepia aquatint plates, bookplate and signature of Sir A.E. Richardson, architect and grandson of the author of this book, George Richardson, somewhat dust-soiled, lower corner of some plates and text leaves repaired, inkstain to margin of plates towards rear, plate 7 with tear repaired, later cloth; Skelton, Joseph. Skelton's Engraved Illustrations of the Principal Antiquities of Oxfordshire. 1824. Folio, engraved title with vignette and 51 plates on india paper, contemporary half calf, neatly rebacked (2)