If you would like to get in touch, please feel free to contact: email hidden; JavaScript is required
Browse collection
- Full collection
- 18th Century & earlier
- Ackermann
- Africa
- Alken
- Animals
- Arabasia
- Architecture/Mansions
- Art
- Australasia
- Botany
- British Isles
- Caricatures
- Children
- China
- Chromo added colour
- Chromolithographs
- Conchology
- Costume
- Cruikshank
- Culture/Lifestyle
- Dutch
- East European
- Far East
- France
- Furniture/Antiques
- General
- Germany
- Grandville
- Heraldry
- History
- History - England
- History - Europe
- Holy Land
- India
- India - sepia
- Islam
- Italy
- Japan
- Literature
- London
- Manuscript
- Map
- Military
- Monnier
- Natural history
- Pastimes
- Pochoir
- Polar regions
- Portraits
- Religious/Christian
- Religious/other
- Rowlandson
- Russia
- Science
- Scrapbook
- Sepia
- South America
- Sports/Hunting
- Stamps
- Swiss
- The Americas
- Theatre
- Travel/Scenery
- Watercolours
- World
GIRARDIN, Rene-Louis.
Laurent Guyot.
Vues pittoresques, plans, des Jardins d’Ermenonville.
Ermenonville park, as created by the Marquis René-Louis de Girardin (1735-1808) and appreciated by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. It was the substantial fortune that his grandfather René Hatte, a tax farmer , bequeathed to him in 1762 that allowed René de Girardin to buy out the shares of the other heirs in the Ermenonville estate and to redevelop it subsequently. The château was then only a fairly ordinary building and the valley floors were nothing but marshes.
- Published
- N.p., n.d. [Paris, Villeneuve, c.1785].
- References
- Bobins supplementary list 08/14. Restoration cost £45.00
- Plates
- 12
- Binding/Size
- S=8vo
- Value
- 0-5000
- Published
- N.p., n.d. [Paris, Villeneuve, c.1785].
- Ref
- 5305
Oblong folio (9 x 12 ¼ inches), 12 plates and text loose in a blue paper wrapper; housed in a marbled paper folder and matching slipcase, burgundy calf label on spine, uncut. Bookplate of 'Felicie Meunie-Hostel' to front pastedown. Fresh spine and inner hinges. Rebinding and restoration work on this book was carried out by Ron Norman of Hartlepool (Ronnorn@aol.com) Coloured plates in order: 1. La Grande Vue, en face du Chateau. 2. Vue d'une Fabrique gothique. 3. Vue du Temple de la Philosophie moderne. 4. Vue de la Maison du Vigneron. 5. Vue de la Salle du jeu. 6. Vue du Tombeau de J.J. Rousseau. 7. Vue de l'Hermitage. 8. Vue de la Tour de Gabrielle. 9. Vue du Moulin. 10. Vue du desert. 11. Vue d'un Tombeau. 12. Vue de l'Obelisque / Vue de l'entree du Bocage.
