Colour Plate & Illustrated
LE GENDRE, Jean Gabriel.
Description de la Place de Louis XV que l'on construit a Reims, des ouvrages a continuer aux environs de cette place, & de ceux a faire dans la suite pour l'utilite & l'embellissement de cette ville.
De l'imprimerie de Prault, Paris 1765. Large folio, woodcut arms on title, small bookseller's label pasted down on title-page, 6 double-page engraved plates and plans engraved by Pierre-Philippe Choffard and Charles Nicolas Jombert after Le Gendre, and 2 full-page plates engraved by P.E. Moitte after C.N. Cochin, engraved headpiece in the text, contemporary red morocco gilt, spine lavishly gilt in compartments, raised bands, label; an excellent copy.
Le Gendre, ingenieur du roy, inspecteur general des ponts et chaussees de France, submitted his first grandiose plans in 1755 based on a similar project carried out in the extensions to Nancy in 1752-1755. Revised plans were submitted and accepted in 1758 and are the subject of the present work. One of the plates depicts the fine statue of Louis XV by Jean-Baptiste Pigalle erected in the Place Royale. Berlin Cat. 2515; Cohen-de Ricci 615.
Price: £ 5750
US Dollar Price: $ 8670
Stock Number: 51521