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Les plans, profils, et élévations des ville [sic] et château de Versailles, avec les bosquets et fontaines, tels qu'ils sont à présent[...].

Stock Code 107027

Paris, chez Demortain, [1716].

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A record of Versailles as completed for the Sun King: Louis XIV. A collection of plans and views of the Palace of Versailles, made between 1714 and 1715 shortly before Louis XIV's death; providing a record of the palace and gardens in their most complete state. Millard describes the engravings as 'superb engravings of the Versailles chapel [which] is the chief among Pierre Le Pautre's extensive and excellent oeuvre' (p.362).

Folio (50 x 37 cm); engraved title page and privilege, 63 plates of which 38 are double-page or folding (lacking plates 5 and 6), lower edge of some leaves restored, traces of dampstaining to lower margin; contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments, gilt lettering to spine, boards slightly worn, corners rubbed, marbled endpapers, a very good example.

Berlin Kat. 2491, 2493; Cohen/de Ricci 808; Millard 121-122.
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Les plans, profils, et élévations des ville [sic] et château de Versailles, avec les bosquets et fontaines, tels qu'ils sont à présent[...].

[VERSAILLES].

Stock code: 107027

$7,343.00

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