[Hardouin-Mansart (Jules)] [L'Eglise des Invalides], only edition, 14 fine etched and engraved plates & plans, 4 double-page and 8 folding, 4 very large, all mounted on stubs, first large plate with short tear to central fold, a few other repairs to folds, handsome contemporary mottled calf with central gilt arms of Louis XIV, rubbed, rebacked preserving most of old gilt spine, new red morocco label, corners repaired, [Millard French 112; not in Berlin Kat.], folio, [Paris], [c.1680].

⁂ Rare. "These very elegant, beautifully engraved, large-scale sections of the chapel of the Invalides, built by Jules Hardouin-Mansart from 1680 to 1691, were used to calculate estimates of the material needed for the construction of the chapel. The original plates were never sold and are now in the Chalcographie du Louvre." Millard.