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4-to (23,5 x 30 cm). Pp. 272. Gilt-decorated cloth with pictorial dust-jacket.
General overview of architecture throughout history with chapters ( by different authors) on the architecture of China, Japan, India, Precolumbian America, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and Rome, the Middle Ages, Italian Renaissance, the 17th and 18th centuries, the colonial styles, 19th century, Art Nouveau and the architecture after 1918. Richly illustrated with b/w and coloured photographs, drawings and plans. With a foreword by Nikolaus Peusner. Text in French. With glossary and index. Book and dust-jacket in very good condition, apart from a small tear in dust-jacket. A rich work, splendidly illustrated.
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