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Published: Paris, l’Auteur,
Date: 1765.
Description: iv, 232pp, ii + 57 engraved plates, 15 being double-page and 10 folding. “Approbation leaf” present. Folio. Contemporary full leather, boards, with mottled calf spine, gilt banded and lettered. 42x28. Scattered light foxing to contents. Ancient marginal worming, professionally repaired. Spine also professionally repaired, where loose.
Notes: This important study is in two parts: the first records the monuments erected to Louis XV; the second presents a scheme for the ‘Place Louis XV’ (today’s Place de la Concorde). Patte also outlines urban design projects to articulate the layout of Paris, through a mosaic of interest points. This was the author’s most significant work and it considerably influenced Thomas Jefferson, as well as L’Enfant (whose 1791 Plan for Washington D.C. makes use of similar multi-focus points of interest) and Le Corbusier. Unlike many urban improvers of the time, Patte wished to retain existing buildings of quality and was interested in improvements to sewage, water supply, air quality etc.. One of the most important 18th century French works on urban design and city planning.
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Price: £1650.00
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