Title & Author:

Description générale de l'Hostel Royal des Invalides : établi par Louis le Grand dans la plaine de Grenelle prés Paris : avec les plans, profils & elevations de ses faces, coupes & appartemens.

Publication:

Paris : Chez l'auteur, 1683.

Description:

4 preliminary leaves, 51 pages : 18 double plates (including plans; some folded) ; 44 cm

Notes:
Engraved title vignette, headpieces and initials; by Robert Bonnart.
Plates engraved by Jean Marot and others.
Colophon: A Paris, De l'Imprimerie de Gabriel Martin ... M. DC. LXXXIII.
Dedicatory epistle signed L.J.D.B., [i.e. Le Jeune de Boullencourt] who appears in the Privilege as the author.
Also attributed to De La Porte. Cf. British Museum Catalog.
British Museum Catalog also indicates a variant with "Boulencourt" for "Boullencourt."
Berlin. Staatliche Kunstbibliothek. Kat. der Ornamentstichsammlung, no. 2476.
Autograph at head of title: Warwick.
Anonymous. Dedication is signed Le Jeune de Boulencourt. Attributed by some to Sieur de La Porte. Most plates engraved by Jean Marot.
Plates: 18 unnumbered plates and frontispiece.
Library copy 2: plates bound separately. Text: 44 cm.; plates: 56 cm. Plates include "Coupe ou vue interieure et perspective" and "Plan général" drawn by F.S. Delamonce, and "Veuë en perspectiue de l'elevatiõ generale ... ", made up of 2 sheets (upper and lower), of which the lower is signed "I. le Pautre sculp."
Library copy 2, v. 1 (text), bound (2) with: Tapisseries du roy, ou sont representez les quatre elemens et les quatre saisons : avec les devises qui les accompagnent, et leur explication. A Paris : Chez Sebastien Mabre-Cramoisy ... , M. DC. LXXIX [1679].

Subject:

Hôtel des invalides (France)
Hôtel des Invalides (Paris, France)
Hôtel royal des invalides (France)
Hospitals France Paris.

Added entries:

Le Jeune de Boullencourt, supposed author.
La Porte, supposed author.
Marot, Jean, 1619?-1679, engr.
Bonnart, Robert, 1652-1729 (ca.), illus. and engr.
Warwick, Earl of.
La Porte, sieur de, d. ca. 1681?
Marot, Jean, 1619?-1679
Delamonce, Ferdinand, 1678-1753
Le Pautre, Jean, 1618-1682

Holdings:

Location: Library main m 198483
Call No.: NA44.F313.A35 1727
Copy: copy 2 v. 2
Status: Available

Location: Library main m 198481
Call No.: NA6763.F72 P35 1683
Copy: copy 1 v. 1
Status: Available

Location: Library main m 198482
Call No.: NA44.F313.A35 1727
Copy: copy 2 v. 1
Status: Available