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'La Grande Galerie de Versailles, et les deux Salons qui l'accompagnent', Paris, 1752; illustrated book containing fifty-six plates: frontispiece portrait of J B Masse after Tocqué, the others from drawings by J B Massé, reproducing the painted decoration designed by Le Brun for the Galerie des Glaces at Versailles and the Salons de la Guerre et de la Paix; eighteen numbered pages of letterpress text describing the prints; bound in red leather, with gold decorative tooling, lettered on spine 'Galerie de Versailles'.
Etchings and engravings, with letterpress
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