Les dix livres d'architecture de Vitruve (Paris, 1673) VITRUVIUS (Marcus Vitruvius Pollio).- LES DIX LIVRES | D’ARCHITECTURE | DE | VITRUVE, | CORRIGEZ ET TRADVUITS |nouvellement en François, avec des Notes | & des figures.- A Paris: Chez Jean Baptiste Coignard, M. DC. LXXIII. (1673).- [18], 325 (aliás 329), [1, 16] p.: il.; 41 cm.- E. Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, Roman architect and civil and military engineer, from the first century before Christ, author of a precious treatise, divided into 10 volumes, which would influence the entire treatise of Renaissance and classical architecture, up to the present day. Original edition of the translation by Charles Perrault (1613-1688), French physician and architect, author of the nascent facade of the Louvre Museum, with its famous “colonnade”. Claude, was the brother of the famous writer Charles Perrault, a pioneer of children's literature and the fairy tale. Edition published without the explicit indication of the translator's name on the title page, composed of: a frontispiece or recorded allegorical title (subscription: S. Le Clerc Inventor - G. Scotin Sculp.); typographical title page; dedication to King Louis XIV, signed by Perrault, and a sonnet by Charpentier (2 f.); preface (6 f.); it follows the text paginated from 1 to 325, with a pagination error starting on page 237 (the next becomes 234, instead of 238) which remains until the end; in the end, the Table de ce qui est contennu dans le texte et dans les notes (7 f.); the last leaf is the Privilege du Roy, with a colophon on the back). In addition to the title, the edition is illustrated with 65 copperplate prints, some of which are full-page, printed next to the text by successive gauffering, as well as numerous smaller woodcut figures. The copy, slightly handled, but complete and clean, has numerous marginal wormholes (repaired with rice paper), affecting mainly the last print (and two more only occasionally), but never the text; some margins reinforced with rice paper, including the title and title page (with overlapping the first letter of the title (L). Slightly worn Entire sheepskin binding of the time, but solid and recoverable, lacking the first flyleaf. Brunet, V, 1329. Cicognara, 727.