Book With The Louis-philippe Cipher Notice Of Paintings And Sculptures Of The Versailles Castle

Rare book of Royal present at the occasion of the inauguration of the History of France Museum at the palace of Versailles.
Notice of the Paintings and Sculptures of the Palace of Versailles.
It contains the list, descriptions and locations of the 2,745 paintings and 541 sculptures that made up the Museum when it opened, requested in 1833 by the King of the French.
Paris, Imprimerie de Crapelet, 1837, in-12, 540 pp., gilded on edge, with fold-out plans.
Paperback, binding in red laid paper cardboard from the period, plates struck in the center of the gilt cipher of King Louis-Philippe.
Worn back, stains. Interior in fresh condition.

Provenance
Present offered by King Louis-Philippe on the occasion of the inauguration of the Museum of the History of France, June 10, 1837, at the Palace of Versailles.
Published the following year in 1838, we know no other work with the King's cipher dating from 1837, apart from belonging to an amateur whose collection was sold on December 18, 1856 in Brussels (lot 368).