Description du mausolée pour très-haut, très-puissant et très-excellent prince Louis dauphin de France, fait à Paris dans l'église de Nôtre-Dame, le 1 mars 1766
Subtitle: cette pompe funébre ordonnée par M. le duc d'Aumont ... a été conduite par M. Papillon de la Ferté ... sur les desseins du Sieur Mic-Ang. Challe ...
Publisher: De l'Imprimerie de P.R.C. Ballard ...
Published: 1766
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 11
Subjects: Death and burial; Sepulchral monuments; Early works to 1800; Funeral rites and ceremonies
Notes: "Par exprès commandement de Sa Majesté."

Signature: [1]⁶.

Title vignette and headpiece on p. [3] engraved by B. L. Prévost after C.N. Cochin fils; the plates are engraved by F.N. Martinet after Challe.

Purchase; Bernard Quaritch Ltd. (Cat. 1340); 8 Lower John Street, Golden Square, London W1F 9AU, England; 2006 April 24; 2005H-115; $6125 (Charlotte and Arthur Vershbow Book Fund); bought with *2005H-116-118.

Later signature on title page of Carl Fr. Wahlberg.

Imperfect: 2d plate (la partie latérale) wanting; 1st plate bound as front. of the volume; outer edge of text leaves cropped, and the plates (on large paper) trimmed to fit the binding.

Bound with: No. 1 in a volume labeled on spine: Receuil[!] sur la mort de monseigneur Louis dauphin. Tom III.

No. 1 in volume with 3 similar works featuring designs by Challes and printed by Ballard from 1766-1768.

Bound in contemporary half brown calf and sprinkled boards, edges stained red.