Marot (Jean) Recueil des Plans Profils et Elevations des plusieurs Palais Chateaux Eglises Sepultres Grotes et Hostels, engraved throughout with title and 114 plates on 101 leaves, plates numbered in contemporary manuscript and with index bound in at end, engraved armorial bookplate of Algernon Capell, 2nd Earl of Essex, mounted on verso of engraved title and with early shelf label H6 to front pastedown, contemporary mottled calf, neatly rebacked preserving old gilt spine incorporating crowned SX monogram of the Earls of Essex, rubbed, corners a little worn, [BAL 2048; Berlin Kat. 2466; Cicognara 555; Fowler 193; Millard, French 118], 4to, n.p. [Paris], [?1670s].

⁂ A good, clean copy of the “Petit Marot”, Jean Marot’s well-known volume of etched elevations, sections and plans of the best buildings in Paris and its environs by French architects of the middle years of the seventeenth century. The number of plates varies but from the presence of the contemporary index this appears to be an early issue.