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(BIRDS & ARCHITECTURE.) Le Pautre, Jean. Nouveaux Dessings pour orner et embelir les Carosses et Chaires roullantes inventés et gravéspar Le Pautre. [with] Woodecockes. 78 engraved plates designed and engraved by Le Paure, with a further suite of 10 engraved ornithological prints. Oblong 4to, 280x190 mm, old vellum, with leather ties; old manuscript ink plate numbers and some extraneous ink spots. Paris: Mariette, [circa 1682]
A composite volume of numerous Le Pautre ornamet suites, including a few not found in the Fowler Collection volume (i.e., "Salieres et Cartouches," "Ornamens de Panaux pour enrichir les Lambris," "Vases et Cartouches" and "Escusons, ou Entrées de Cerures et autres ornemens.") Some leaves watermarked Gaudriault 272 ("Cadran // B [heart' C") dating the prints to circa 1680.
