LE JEUNE DE BOULENCOURT.  Description Generale de l' Hostel Royal des Invalides ... avec les Plans, Profilsw & Elevations de ses Faces, Coupes & Appartmens, Paris: Chez l' Autuer, 1683-1706. 2 volumes. 2° (425 x 285mm.). Engraved frontispiece, head-pieces and initials, 19 engraved plates, most double-page or folding. (Some light mainly marginal browning). Contemporary calf, the covers of the text volume with gilt central armorial device, spines gilt in compartments with red morocco lettering pieces. (Rubbed and scuffed). Berlin Kat. 2476; Brunet IV, 486: "avec 19 ou 21 pl.") & Brunet I, 1443. Provenance: Pierre de Monthiers (armorial bookplate and early signatures on titles), further inscribed "ex dono Regis". IMPORTANT ASSOCIATION COPY. Identical early inscriptions at the front of each volume read: "Donné par le roi Louis 14 à Mue. Pierre de Monthiers ... lieutenant général de poutoise, et Commissionère des guerres à la rèsidence et police des invalides par buevet du roi
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LE JEUNE DE BOULENCOURT. Description Generale de l' Hostel Royal des Invalides ... avec les Plans, Profilsw & Elevations de ses Faces, Coupes & Appartmens, Paris: Chez l' Autuer, 1683-1706. 2 volumes. 2° (425 x 285mm.). Engraved frontispiece, head-pieces and initials, 19 engraved plates, most double-page or folding. (Some light mainly marginal browning). Contemporary calf, the covers of the text volume with gilt central armorial device, spines gilt in compartments with red morocco lettering pieces. (Rubbed and scuffed). Berlin Kat. 2476; Brunet IV, 486: "avec 19 ou 21 pl.") & Brunet I, 1443. Provenance: Pierre de Monthiers (armorial bookplate and early signatures on titles), further inscribed "ex dono Regis". IMPORTANT ASSOCIATION COPY. Identical early inscriptions at the front of each volume read: "Donné par le roi Louis 14 à Mue. Pierre de Monthiers ... lieutenant général de poutoise, et Commissionère des guerres à la rèsidence et police des invalides par buevet du roi du 1eu. mars 1708 ..." (2)

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LE JEUNE DE BOULENCOURT. Description Generale de l' Hostel Royal des Invalides ... avec les Plans, Profilsw & Elevations de ses Faces, Coupes & Appartmens, Paris: Chez l' Autuer, 1683-1706. 2 volumes. 2° (425 x 285mm.). Engraved frontispiece, head-pieces and initials, 19 engraved plates, most double-page or folding. (Some light mainly marginal browning). Contemporary calf, the covers of the text volume with gilt central armorial device, spines gilt in compartments with red morocco lettering pieces. (Rubbed and scuffed). Berlin Kat. 2476; Brunet IV, 486: "avec 19 ou 21 pl.") & Brunet I, 1443. Provenance: Pierre de Monthiers (armorial bookplate and early signatures on titles), further inscribed "ex dono Regis". IMPORTANT ASSOCIATION COPY. Identical early inscriptions at the front of each volume read: "Donné par le roi Louis 14 à Mue. Pierre de Monthiers ... lieutenant général de poutoise, et Commissionère des guerres à la rèsidence et police des invalides par buevet du roi du 1eu. mars 1708 ..." (2)
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