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[INVALIDES] PERAU (Gabriel).
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[INVALIDES] PERAU (Gabriel).
Description of the Hôtel Royal des Invalides. With the Plans, Sections, Geometrical Elevations of this Edifice, & the Paintings & Sculptures of the Church.
Paris : Guillaume Desprez, 1756.
In-folio, (4)-XII-104 pages and 108 numbered plates including frontispiece. Contemporary half basane, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets.
First edition.
Most of the plates - 104 out of 108 - had originally appeared in the Histoire de l'Hôtel royal des Invalides by Jean-Joseph Granet (Paris, 1736) and are here in a second printing.
However, Pérau specifies in his preliminary speech that the work must be considered as completely new, because of the numerous additions and precisions.
The illustration includes a frontispiece engraved by Cochin after Cazes and 107 plates, 31 of which are double-page plates engraved by Cochin, Lucas and Herisset after drawings by Mansart, Cotte, Maler, Coypel, La Fosse and Jouvenet.
Cohen 788 (erroneous collation)| Brunet IV, 486.
Provenance: Autograph letter signed by Sewrin (Charles-Augustin Bassompierre, known as Sewrin, who was Secretary General Archivist of the Invalides from 1823 to 1830): "Given to my son-in-law and good friend René de Perier, by me former Secretary General Archivist of the Hôtel Royal des Invalides. August 16, 1845."
(Spine rubbed, second hinge cracked, small paper loss at edge of first board, two corners heavily dulled).
Description of the Hôtel Royal des Invalides. With the Plans, Sections, Geometrical Elevations of this Edifice, & the Paintings & Sculptures of the Church.
Paris : Guillaume Desprez, 1756.
In-folio, (4)-XII-104 pages and 108 numbered plates including frontispiece. Contemporary half basane, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets.
First edition.
Most of the plates - 104 out of 108 - had originally appeared in the Histoire de l'Hôtel royal des Invalides by Jean-Joseph Granet (Paris, 1736) and are here in a second printing.
However, Pérau specifies in his preliminary speech that the work must be considered as completely new, because of the numerous additions and precisions.
The illustration includes a frontispiece engraved by Cochin after Cazes and 107 plates, 31 of which are double-page plates engraved by Cochin, Lucas and Herisset after drawings by Mansart, Cotte, Maler, Coypel, La Fosse and Jouvenet.
Cohen 788 (erroneous collation)| Brunet IV, 486.
Provenance: Autograph letter signed by Sewrin (Charles-Augustin Bassompierre, known as Sewrin, who was Secretary General Archivist of the Invalides from 1823 to 1830): "Given to my son-in-law and good friend René de Perier, by me former Secretary General Archivist of the Hôtel Royal des Invalides. August 16, 1845."
(Spine rubbed, second hinge cracked, small paper loss at edge of first board, two corners heavily dulled).