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Perrault, Claude (1613-1688)

Ordonnance
Ordonnance des cinq especes de colonnes selon la methode des Anciens..., Paris, Jean-Baptiste Coignard, 1683.

            English translations
A treatise of the five orders of columns in architecture... Written in french by Claude Perrault..., London, Benjamin Motte, 1708.
A treatise of the five orders of columns in architecture... Written in french by Claude Perrault..., London, John Senex, Richard Gosling, William Taylor, William & John Innys, & John Osborn, 1722.

Treatise of Vitruvius
Les dix livres d’architecture de Vitruve, corrigez et traduits nouvellement en françois, avec des notes et des figures, Paris, Jean-Baptiste Coignard, 1673.
Les dix livres d’architecture de Vitruve corrigez et traduits nouvellement en françois, avec des notes et des figures. Seconde edition reveuë, corrigée,& augmentée…, Paris, Jean-Baptiste Coignard, 1684.

Abridgment of Vitruvius
Abregé des dix livres d’architecture de Vitruve, Paris, Jean-Baptiste Coignard, 1674.

            Dutch edition
Architecture generale de Vitruve reduite en abregé, par Mr. Perrault..., Amsterdam, Huguetan, 1681 [1691].

            English translations
An abridgment of the architecture of Vitruvius... First done in french by Mons^r Perrault..., London, Abel Swall & Timothy Child, 1692.
The theory and practice of architecture, or Vitruvius and Vignola abridg’d. The first, by the famous Mr Perrault..., London, Richard Wellington, 1703.
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            Italian translations
Compendio dell’architettura generale di Vitruvio opera di Mons. Perrault di nuovo compendiata, e ristretta nella presente traduzione italiana da C[onte] C[arlo] C[ataneo]..., Venice, Girolamo Albrizzi, 1711.
L’Architettura generale di Vitruvio ridotta in compendio dal Sig. Perrault... Opera tradotta dal francese..., Venice, Giovanni Battista Albrizzi, 1747.
 
            Spanish translation
Compendio de los diez libros de Arquitectura de Vitruvio escrito en francés. Por Claudio Perrault.... Traducido al castellano por Don Joseph Castañeda, Madrid, Gabriel Ramirez, 1761.

            Russian translation
Sokratschenniy Vitruviy ili soverchenniy arkhitektor. Perevod arkhitektury pomotschnika Fedora Karjavina, Moscow, Universitetskaya Tipografiya Novikova, 1789.