Voyage pittoresque de Paris, ou description de tout ce qu'il y a de plus beau dans cette grande Ville, en Peinture, Sculpture et Architecture by M. D***.

Third augmented edition of this important artistic guide to Paris under Louis XV. A title-frontispiece engraved in colors by J. Robert & 5 plates hors-texte including 2 folding by Choffart, Saint-Aubin. Four of them, signed by Choffard (1730-1809), reproduce the illustrations from the previous edition (1752). These are the Mausoleum of Henri II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, by Jacques Sarazin in the church of Saint-Louis of the Jesuits (today reinstalled in the chapel of the château de Chantilly), the tombs of the painter Charles Le Brun and his mother at Saint-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet, and Bouchardon's Fountain on rue de Grenelle. A fifth unpublished plate was added for this new edition: engraved by Fessard after Augustin de Saint-Aubin, it represents the Mausoleum of Languet de Gergy by Michel Ange Slodtz at Saint-Sulpice. The first edition contained no engravings.
Full glazed marbled brown calf. Spine with raised bands decorated. Red morocco title label. Upper and lower joints narrowly cracked at foot. Foot of spine and corners restored.
Description of the city of Paris following the division into 20 districts dating from 1701, with the most remarkable monuments, paintings in certain churches, private mansions...