MONICART (Jean-Baptiste de) & LE TESTU (Romain). Versailles immortalized by the speaking wonders of the Buildings, Gardens, Groves, Parks, Statues, Groups, Terms, & Vases of marble, stone, & metals, Pieces of water, Pictures & Paintings which are in the Castles of Versailles, Trianon, Menagerie & Marly [...]. A Paris, Chez Etienne Ganeau, Libraire, & Jacque Quillau, Imprimeur-Libraire, 1720. In-4°, granite calf, ornate ribbed spine (period binding). Volume I only (of 2). ORIGINAL EDITION. Text in French by MONICART with translation into Latin by LE TESTU.
A frontispiece with the royal coat of arms, a vignette with a portrait of the King, & 54 plates, 25 of which are folded, after LE BRUN, COCHIN, COYPEL... Complete with the rare folded plan of Versailles. Covers and spines damaged. Cohen, 724.
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MONICART (Jean-Baptiste de) & LE TESTU (Romain). Versailles immortalized by the speaking wonders of the Buildings, Gardens, Groves, Parks, Statues, Groups, Terms, & Vases of marble, stone, & metals, Pieces of water, Pictures & Paintings which are in the Castles of Versailles, Trianon, Menagerie & Marly [...]. A Paris, Chez Etienne Ganeau, Libraire, & Jacque Quillau, Imprimeur-Libraire, 1720. In-4°, granite calf, ornate ribbed spine (period binding). Volume I only (of 2). ORIGINAL EDITION. Text in French by MONICART with translation into Latin by LE TESTU. A frontispiece with the royal coat of arms, a vignette with a portrait of the King, & 54 plates, 25 of which are folded, after LE BRUN, COCHIN, COYPEL... Complete with the rare folded plan of Versailles. Covers and spines damaged. Cohen, 724.

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MONICART (Jean-Baptiste de) & LE TESTU (Romain). Versailles immortalized by the speaking wonders of the Buildings, Gardens, Groves, Parks, Statues, Groups, Terms, & Vases of marble, stone, & metals, Pieces of water, Pictures & Paintings which are in the Castles of Versailles, Trianon, Menagerie & Marly [...]. A Paris, Chez Etienne Ganeau, Libraire, & Jacque Quillau, Imprimeur-Libraire, 1720. In-4°, granite calf, ornate ribbed spine (period binding). Volume I only (of 2). ORIGINAL EDITION. Text in French by MONICART with translation into Latin by LE TESTU. A frontispiece with the royal coat of arms, a vignette with a portrait of the King, & 54 plates, 25 of which are folded, after LE BRUN, COCHIN, COYPEL... Complete with the rare folded plan of Versailles. Covers and spines damaged. Cohen, 724.
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