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
Paris: de l'imprimerie de Prault, 1765. Large folio. (24 7/8 x 18 1/2 inches). 8 engraved plates and plans (1 double-page plan, 4 double-page plates byPierre-Philippe Choffard after Le Gendre, 1 double-page and 2 single-page plates by P.E. Moitte after C.N. Cochin), 1 engraved headpiece by Choffard, the plates and text on laid paper.
Expertly bound to style in half morocco over marbled paper covered boards, spine in eight compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second compartment, the others with a repeat floral decoration in gilt, gilt edges
A lovely folio illustrated work on the design of the Place de la Concorde.
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; Vera Salomons Choffard (1911) p.75.
Item #21532
Price: $8,000.00