Description De La Place De Louis Xv Que Lon Construit A Reims Des Ouvrages A Continuer Aux Environs

by Jean Gabriel Le Gendre

$8,000 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

Expertly bound to style in half morocco over marbled paper covered boards, spine in eight compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second compartment, the others with a repeat floral decoration in gilt, gilt edges A lovely folio illustrated work on the design of the Place de la Concorde. Le Gendre, Ingenieur Du Roy, inspecteur General des ponts et chaussees de France, submitted his first grandiose plans in 1755 based on a similar project carried out in the

• Binding: Leather

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