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LE CARPENTIER, Matthieu.

Recueil des plans, coupes et élévations du nouvel Hôtel de Ville de Rouen, dont la construction a été commencee en Mai 1757, avec le plans d'un accroissement & e autres ouvrages projettés pour cette ville ...

Paris, chez Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1757. Folio, pp. [ii], 9, [1], engraved armorial headpiece by Prevost after Hallé, double-page plan of Rouen by Canu and 5 plans and elevations (of which 2 are double-page) of the Hôtel de Ville; a crisp, clean copy, in recent quarter calf and marbled boards First and only edition. Le Carpentier's project for a grand classical town hall in the centre of Rouen never progressed beyond the foundation stone.Berlin Kat. 2514; RLIN locates 3 copies: Art Institute Chicago, Pennsylvannia and Harvard; not in OCLC or NUC.

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