[VERSAILLES / CABINET du ROI] - [Plans, elevations and views of the Château de Versailles], -- [Grotte, Labyrinthe, Fontaines et Bassins de Versailles] --- [Statues du Roy, Antiques & Modernes], ---- [Termes, Bustes, Sphinxes & Vases du Roy]. S.l.n.d. [1673-1689], ----- Description de la grotte de Versailles. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie Royale, 1676. 5 parts in one large in-folio volume, red morocco, double frame of Du Seuil-style gilded fillets decorating the boards, crowned monograms at the corners, royal arms in the center, spine decorated with monograms cantoned with lilies, gilded edges (period binding). - 12 plates; -- 10 plates; --- 46 plates; ---- 17 plates; ----- Eleven pages of text, large vignette of the royal arms on the title and 18 plates, i.e. 103 plates, some double, by or after Israël Sylvestre, Jean Baptiste Nollin, Jules Hardouin-Mansart, Pierre Le Pautre, Jean Edelinck, Picart Le Romain, Estienne Baudet, Balthazar Mercy, Gaspar de Mercy, Louis de Châtillon, J. Cotelle, Benoît Massou... Reunion of the "Cinquième [...]", "Sixième [...]", "Septième [...]", "Huitième [...]" and "Neuvième volume" according to the Catalogue d'estampes dont les Planches sont à la Bibliothèque du Roy (S. l.Created by Colbert in 1667, the Cabinet du Roy was an artistic and political announcement designed to glorify Versailles and the power of Louis XIV. The Description de la grotte de Versailles (Description of the Versailles grotto) is here in its first edition, the use of which would have been reserved for the King. This grotto, known as the Grotte de Thétis and now lost, was one of the wonders of Versailles. The title page bears "Plans // veues // et ornem. // de Versailles" (Plans // veues // et ornem. // de Versailles). Rust stains on two plates (Statue d'un faune et satue d'une danseuse). VERY GOOD EXEMPLAIRE IN RED MAROQUIN WITH ROYAL ARMS, GATHERING THREE PARTS OF THE KING'S CABINET.