DECORATIVE ARTS: Collection of drawings, 17th c.; one vol. s - Lot 1

DECORATIVE ARTS: Collection of drawings, 17th c.; one vol. small in-4 (25.5 x 20 cm) with 60 plates, antique hardback, parchment spine. Pen and gray ink wash drawings of religious objects and furnishings: chalices, ciborium, miter and crosses, tabernacle, vases, altars, lectern, candlesticks, pulpit tops, ornaments; 2 plates are devoted to designs for medals: one in the effigy of Louis XIV (1669) for religious concord, one for the Académie des Lanternistes de Toulouse... Engravings of coats of arms, including those of the Marquise de Pompadour by J. Tubert, have been glued to the boards of the cartonnage; two other prints have been glued to the flyleaves, including a portrait of the royal secretary Jean Vassal (1765) by V. de Saint-Hubert.