Discovrs historial de l'antiqve et illvstre cité de Nismes en la Gaule narbonoise : auec les portraitz des plus antiques & insignes bastimens dudit lieu, reduitz à leur vraye mesure & proportion, ensemble de l'antique & moderne ville
A French antiquarian history of Nîmes by Jean Poldo d'Albenas, printed by Guillaume Rouillé at Lyon in 1560 with woodcuts by Pierre Eskrich, surveying the city's Roman monuments for scholars and builders. Measured woodcut plates dissect cornices, fluted columns, Corinthian capitals, arch voussoirs and acanthus friezes with keyed letters and scale bars, alongside foliate initial letters usable as ornament and detail stock.






























