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ARCHITECTURE] BOFFRAND (Germain)] De architectura liber… A book on architecture containing the general principles of this art and the plans, elevations and profiles of some of the buildings constructed in France and abroad, Paris, Guillaume Cavelier, 1745, bound together with *Description of the Process Used to Cast in a Single Pour the Equestrian Statue of Louis XIV, Erected by the City of Paris in the Place de Louis le Grand*, Paris, Guillaume Cavelier, 1743. 2 works in a single folio volume in full red morocco, with gilt borders and fleurs-de-lis on the covers, spine with raised bands richly decorated with (2), 99 pages, 69 plates, (3); subsequently bound together: (3), 1 blank page, 63 pages (with added pages (45–46), (1), 21 plates (two plates XVII, two plates XVIII, double plate of the equestrian figure of Louis XIV). First edition of these two works by Germain Bonffrand (1667–1754), a French architect originally from Nantes, to whom we owe – amongst many others – the Hôtel d’Aiguillon, the Hôtel Le Brun, the conversion of the Hôtel de Mayenne in Paris, numerous private mansions in Nancy, the Town Hall of Joigny and numerous châteaux throughout France… The treatise on architecture presents his principal realisations, buildings and works. The work is in French and Latin, illustrated with intaglio plates engraved by P. Tardieu, de la Marquade (Marcade), Herisset, Le Geay, Blondel, C. Lucas, Fonbonne, Moreau, Mutel and Babel; Vignette at the head of the Privilege engraved by Tardieu the Younger after F. Boucher. The Latin title page has been bound opposite the French one. Plate XXIII is missing. Rare. A fine copy, attractively bound. Ex-libris stamped ‘Serrant’
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