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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Le magnifique chasteau de Richelieu, en general et en particulier, ou, Les plans, les elevations, et porfils [sic] generaux et particuliers dudit chasteau : et de ses auenuës, basses-courts, anti-courts, courts, corps de logis, aisles, galleries, escuries, maneges, iardins, bois, parc, & generalement de tous ses appartemens. Commencé et acheué par Iean Armand du Plessis, cardinal duc de Richelieu, sous la conduite de Iacques le Mercier, architecte ordinaire du roy / graué & reduit au petit-pied, par Iean Marot, aussi architecte & graueur de sadite Majesté. Dedié à Monseigneur le Duc de Richelieu.

Accession number
PML 195298
Creator
Marot, Jean, 1619?-1679.
Published
[Paris : s.n., 1660?]
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2008.
Notes
First issue of first ed., as described by Fowler.
3 folded leaves ([3] p.) of letterpress followed by 20 etchings by Jean Marot, printed on 19 leaves and folded and mounted on bound stubs.
Dedication by de Buisine to Jean Armand du Plessis, duc de Richelieu, nephew of Cardinal Richelieu. Jean Armand is addressed as pair de France, an honor he received in 1657; the work must date no earlier than that year, perhaps to 1660. See Fowler.
Plates signed by Jean Marot.
Description
[3] folded leaves, [38] leaves of plates (i.e. 19 folded plates) : chiefly ill. (etchings) ; 25 x 34 cm.
Inscriptions/Markings
Watermark: on general perspective page. Double outlined shield with stars inside, over base with door, fragment, lower part.
Watermark: inside double-page spread "Chateau de RIchelieu Plan". Double outlined shield with cross, fragment, probably upper part.
Watermark: on page with Doric elevation. Circle with IHS and small Maltese cross, fragment.
Watermark: On right half of page of general perspective view. Double outlined shield with trefoil, heart and diagonals, fragment.
Provenance
Sold at Christies, New York, Dec. 5, 2008, lot 23; purchased from Bruce McKittrick, Apr. 2009.
Binding
Contemporary vellum, tooled in gilt, with traces of ties.
Classification
Department