Author: PERAU, L'Abbé Gabriel-Louis-Calabre (1700-1767) :
Title: Description Historique de l'Hôtel Royal des Invalides. Avec les Plans, Coupes, Elévations géometrales de cet Edifice, & les Peintures, & les Sculptures de l'Eglise, Dessinées & gravées par le Sieur Cochin, Graveur du Roi.
Description: .: Paris, Guillaume Desprez, 1756, in-folio, 43 x 28 cm, (i-iv) + xii + 104 + 108 etched & engraved plates (77 full-page, 31 double-page, frontispice included), bound in full mottled calf, raised back with gilt decoration and a red morocco label, red-painted edges. Both covers with a triple gilt fillet with large gilt lillies in the corners. Some expertly restorations at the headcap and the lower end of the spine, title page with some faint foxing spots and some thumb marks, a few unobtrusive stains on some plates, but in all an excellent and complete copy. Millard I , 132. Ornamentstichkatalog Berlin 2513. Not in Fowler. .

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