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LE JEUNE DE BOULLENCOURT. Description Générale de L'Hostel Royale des Invalides établi par Louis le Grand dans la Plaine de Grenelle prés Paris. Paris: Chez l'Auteur, dans l'Hostel Royal des Invalides, 1683.
2° (430 x 280mm.). Text volume with engraved frontispiece, title with engraved vignette, dedication signed by the author, 7 head-pieces and initials, 18 double-page and folding plans and views by Marot and Le Pautre and others. Contemporary red morocco gilt, covers with Greek-key pattern borders, spine in seven sections decorated with flower tools, g.e. (corners lightly rubbed). Provenance: 1st Earl of Lovelace (armorial bookplate). Berlin Kat 2476; together with an atlas volume of 14 engraved elevations and profiles of the Eglise Royale des Invalides, unsigned and undated, 10 double-page and folding. Uniformly bound in contemporary red morocco, g.e. (2)
2° (430 x 280mm.). Text volume with engraved frontispiece, title with engraved vignette, dedication signed by the author, 7 head-pieces and initials, 18 double-page and folding plans and views by Marot and Le Pautre and others. Contemporary red morocco gilt, covers with Greek-key pattern borders, spine in seven sections decorated with flower tools, g.e. (corners lightly rubbed). Provenance: 1st Earl of Lovelace (armorial bookplate). Berlin Kat 2476; together with an atlas volume of 14 engraved elevations and profiles of the Eglise Royale des Invalides, unsigned and undated, 10 double-page and folding. Uniformly bound in contemporary red morocco, g.e. (2)