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Description de ce qui a été pratiqué pour fondre en bronze d'un seul jet la figure equestre de Louis XIV, elevée par la ville de Paris dans la Place de Louis le Grand en mil six cens quatre-vingt-dix-neuf. Ouvrage en frnçois et latin, enrichi de planches en taille-douce. Par le sieur Boffrand, ...
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Boffrand, Germain (1667--1754)
Description de ce qui a été pratiqué pour fondre en bronze d'un seul jet la figure equestre de Louis XIV, elevée par la ville de Paris dans la Place de Louis le Grand en mil six cens quatre-vingt-dix-neuf. Ouvrage en frnçois et latin, enrichi de planches en taille-douce. Par le sieur Boffrand, ...
A Paris (Place), chez Guillaume Cavelier pere,, 1743.
[8], 63, [1] p., XVIII [i.e. 20] pl. (bis pl. 17--18; 3 fold.) ; 43.0 cm. (2°)
Parallel title and text in Latin. The Soane copy, like the BAL copy, includes the plate depicting the furnace in action, which is often lacking. BAL Early printed books, no. 317.
Copy Notes Duplicate of pl. I, which was almost certainly also issued separately as a print, bound at end. Bound (2) with a copy of the author's Livre d'architecture, 1745 (q.v.).
Binding C18th mottled vellum, paper spine-label lettered 'Boffrand'.
Reference Number 1722
Additional Names Descriptio omnium operarum quibus ad fundendam ex aere, una emissione metalli, Ludovici Decimi-quarti statuam equestrem; Louis XIV, King of France, (1638--1715) - Art patronage
Description de ce qui a été pratiqué pour fondre en bronze d'un seul jet la figure equestre de Louis XIV, elevée par la ville de Paris dans la Place de Louis le Grand en mil six cens quatre-vingt-dix-neuf. Ouvrage en frnçois et latin, enrichi de planches en taille-douce. Par le sieur Boffrand, ...
A Paris (Place), chez Guillaume Cavelier pere,, 1743.
[8], 63, [1] p., XVIII [i.e. 20] pl. (bis pl. 17--18; 3 fold.) ; 43.0 cm. (2°)
Parallel title and text in Latin. The Soane copy, like the BAL copy, includes the plate depicting the furnace in action, which is often lacking. BAL Early printed books, no. 317.
Copy Notes Duplicate of pl. I, which was almost certainly also issued separately as a print, bound at end. Bound (2) with a copy of the author's Livre d'architecture, 1745 (q.v.).
Binding C18th mottled vellum, paper spine-label lettered 'Boffrand'.
Reference Number 1722
Additional Names Descriptio omnium operarum quibus ad fundendam ex aere, una emissione metalli, Ludovici Decimi-quarti statuam equestrem; Louis XIV, King of France, (1638--1715) - Art patronage