[Gilles de MORTAIN]. Plans, Sections, and Elevations of the - Lot 152

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[Gilles de MORTAIN]. Plans, Sections, and Elevations of the - Lot 152
[Gilles de MORTAIN]. Plans, Sections, and Elevations of the City and Palace of Versailles, Including the Groves and Fountains, as They Are Today, Surveyed on Site, Drawn and Engraved in 1714 and 1715… Paris, Demortain, n.d. (1716). - Pierre LE PAUTRE. Plans, Cross-Sections, Profiles, and Elevations of the Chapel of the Royal Palace of Versailles, Surveyed and Engraved by Pierre Le Pautre, Architect and Engraver to the King. Paris, de Mortain, n.d. 2 works in one folio volume, brown calfskin, spine with 7 raised bands (contemporary binding). Millard, 121 These two works are often bound together. The de Mortain volume contains an engraved title page and a privilege folio, along with 42 plates—22 of which are double-page spreads—numbered 1 through 38, including 2 plates numbered 32 on the same folio and 3 unnumbered plates; and for the work by Le Pautre, 13 etched plates, numbered 1 through 10, with 3 unnumbered plates. The collation corresponds to that given by Millard, though in a different order. A few plates are slightly discolored.
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