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La Gallerie du Palais du Luxembourg. Paris: Duchange, 1710. Broadsheet 2° (620 x 460mm). Engraved title, advertisement, engraved portrait of Rubens after Van Dyke, and 24 engraved plates after Rubens, 3 double-page. (Tear to one of the plates, a few creases, occasional spotting and soiling not affecting engraved plates.) Contemporary green straight-grained morocco decorated in gilt with inset of contemporary marled paper (tail of spine chipped, extremities rubbed). Provenance: Thomas Hesketh, Bart (book label) -- Easton Neston Library (library ticket) -- Sir Thomas Rack (pencil ownership inscription).
La Gallerie du Palais du Luxembourg. Paris: Duchange, 1710. Broadsheet 2° (620 x 460mm). Engraved title, advertisement, engraved portrait of Rubens after Van Dyke, and 24 engraved plates after Rubens, 3 double-page. (Tear to one of the plates, a few creases, occasional spotting and soiling not affecting engraved plates.) Contemporary green straight-grained morocco decorated in gilt with inset of contemporary marled paper (tail of spine chipped, extremities rubbed). Provenance: Thomas Hesketh, Bart (book label) -- Easton Neston Library (library ticket) -- Sir Thomas Rack (pencil ownership inscription).

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La Gallerie du Palais du Luxembourg. Paris: Duchange, 1710. Broadsheet 2° (620 x 460mm). Engraved title, advertisement, engraved portrait of Rubens after Van Dyke, and 24 engraved plates after Rubens, 3 double-page. (Tear to one of the plates, a few creases, occasional spotting and soiling not affecting engraved plates.) Contemporary green straight-grained morocco decorated in gilt with inset of contemporary marled paper (tail of spine chipped, extremities rubbed). Provenance: Thomas Hesketh, Bart (book label) -- Easton Neston Library (library ticket) -- Sir Thomas Rack (pencil ownership inscription).

FIRST EDITION. The plates, engraved by Nattier, Picart and others after Rubens, depict the famous paintings realized by Rubens for the Queen of France, Maria de' Medici, which were previously kept in the Palais du Luxembourg and are now at the Louvre. Cohen-de Ricci 915; Graesse, VI 184.

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