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PARIS - PÉRAU (Gabriel-Louis). Description historique de l'hôtel royal des Invalides... avec les plans, coupes, élévations géométrales de cet édifice, & les peintures & sculptures de l'église... Paris, Guillaume Desprez, 1756. In-folio, 28 x 44 cm, 2 folios, XII + 104 pp. 108 plates, 19th-century binding in marbled fawn calf, wide gilt roulette framing the boards, spine decorated with faux-nerfs and gilt motifs, gilt edges. First edition. Prior at the Sorbonne, Gabriel-Louis Pérau (1700-1767) is known for having continued d'Auvigny's Vies des hommes illustres de la France. Illustrated with a frontispiece engraved by C. N. Cochin after Cazes, 2 vignettes by Dulin engraved by the same artist, 2 lettrines and 107 plates, 31 of which on double page. The plates were engraved by Cochin, Lucas and Herisset after drawings by Mansart, Cotte, Maler, Coypel, La Fosse and Jouvenet. From the libraries of the 2nd Duke of Coigny (1737-1821), Marshal of France, Governor of the Hôtel Royal des Invalides (name in gilt letters on the upper cover), Jean-Baptiste Labé de Morambert (1770-1847), general treasurer of the endowment for the invalids of war and the royal and military order of Saint-Louis (ex-dono from the Duc de Coigny dated 1820) and Cardinal Dubois (1856-1929), archbishop of Paris in 1920 (heraldic ex-libris). Scattered foxing and margins occasionally browned. Plates 55 and 98 uniformly browned. Binding skilfully restored (corners, spine and top board). Millard I, 132. An 18th-century print is included: "Élévation du portail de l'église des Invalides" (Elevation of the portal of the Invalides church).
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PARIS - PÉRAU (Gabriel-Louis). Description historique de l'hôtel royal des Invalides... avec les plans, coupes, élévations géométrales de cet édifice, & les peintures & sculptures de l'église... Paris, Guillaume Desprez, 1756. In-folio, 28 x 44 cm, 2 folios, XII + 104 pp. 108 plates, 19th-century binding in marbled fawn calf, wide gilt roulette framing the boards, spine decorated with faux-nerfs and gilt motifs, gilt edges. First edition. Prior at the Sorbonne, Gabriel-Louis Pérau (1700-1767) is known for having continued d'Auvigny's Vies des hommes illustres de la France. Illustrated with a frontispiece engraved by C. N. Cochin after Cazes, 2 vignettes by Dulin engraved by the same artist, 2 lettrines and 107 plates, 31 of which on double page. The plates were engraved by Cochin, Lucas and Herisset after drawings by Mansart, Cotte, Maler, Coypel, La Fosse and Jouvenet. From the libraries of the 2nd Duke of Coigny (1737-1821), Marshal of France, Governor of the Hôtel Royal des Invalides (name in gilt letters on the upper cover), Jean-Baptiste Labé de Morambert (1770-1847), general treasurer of the endowment for the invalids of war and the royal and military order of Saint-Louis (ex-dono from the Duc de Coigny dated 1820) and Cardinal Dubois (1856-1929), archbishop of Paris in 1920 (heraldic ex-libris). Scattered foxing and margins occasionally browned. Plates 55 and 98 uniformly browned. Binding skilfully restored (corners, spine and top board). Millard I, 132. An 18th-century print is included: "Élévation du portail de l'église des Invalides" (Elevation of the portal of the Invalides church).
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