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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Les Loix Des Batiments, Suivant La Coutume de Paris, traitant de ce qui Concerne les servitude's reelles, les rapports des Jures-experts, les reparations locatives, douairieres, usufruitieres, beneficiales, Avec les notes de M. Goupy, architects, expert bourgeois. Antoine Desgodets & Martin Goupy, 1748, full leather, illustrated frotispiece, 2 parts in one volume, 8vo. In good condition, leather is scuffed and board's corners are bumped. Spine hinges are loose, raised bands have signs of abrasion. Gilt work still bright and vibrant. Colorful marbled paper on end pages. Former ex-Libris on front end page. Textblock is yellowed throughout with minor foxing, as to be expected. Please see photos. Antoine Desgodet (1653-1728), elected member of the Royal Academy of Architecture in 1694 was the King's architect from 1699. This work constitutes a publication of the course given by Desgodet at the Royal Academy of Architecture. He published "Les Edifices antiques de Rome Dessines et measures tres exactement" in 1682. It provided detailed engravings of the monuments and antiquities of Rome to serve French artists and architects. It proved to help Neoclassical architects as it had been to classicizing Late Baroque ones. COLA1748ADJA.