Lauters (Paulus) Souvenir du Sacré-Coeur de Jette St Pierre près Bruxelles, chromolithographed decorative title heightened in gold, 15 tinted lithographed plates, marginal foxing, original cloth-backed boards, blue paper illustration printed in gold mounted on upper cover (chipped), rubbed and stained, Brussels, [c.1846] § Gailhabaud (Jules) L'Architecture du Ve au XVIIe siècle et les Arts qui en dépendent..., 4 vol., engraved or chromolithographed plates, some double-page, contemporary half red morocco, g.e., rubbed, vol.4 spine stained, vol.2 defective at head, Paris, 1869-72; and an odd volume of tinted lithographed views of Paris, folio (6)

⁂ Views of the garden attached to a girls’ boarding school run by nuns at Jette, outside Brussels, by Paulus Lauters who was the drawing master. Unusually the standard components of an early 19th century landscaped garden - rustic bridge, column, obelisk, rocks, cascade, Chinese pavilion - were accompanied by explicitly religious features such as statues of the Virgin Mary and a Calvary, while the obligatory garden hermitage was associated with St. Anthony.