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A65137 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. Vitruvius Pollio.; Perrault, Claude, 1613-1688. Dix livres d'architecture de Vitruve. 1692 (1692) Wing V663; ESTC R19317 64,558 198

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