XIMÉNEZ, Fray Andrés, O.S.H.- Descricion del Real Monasterio de San Lorenzo del Escorial: su magnifico templo, panteon, y palacio: compendiada de la descripcion antigua, y exonerada con nuevas listosas láminas de su planta y montéa...- En Madrid: En la Imprenta de Antonio Marin, 1764.- [20], 452 p.: il.; 29 cm.- E. Friar Andrés Ximénez (1617-1692), a Hieronymite monk, was a professor and chair of vespers at the Royal Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial. This edition boasts impressive graphic design and is illustrated with the following 18 intaglio engravings (unnumbered): 1 - General view (p. 1); 2 - Facade (p. 22); 3 - Section (p. 30); 4 - Staircase plan (p. 68); 5 - Staircase section (p. 69); 6 - Monument to the ancestors of Queen Maria Ana of Neuburg (p. 204); 7 - 1st general section (p. 214); 8 - 2nd general section (p. 222); 9 - Large choir stall (p. 226); 10 - High altar (p. 296); 11 - Portrait of Philip IV; 12 - Entrance to the Pantheon (p. 330); 13 - Staircase of the Pantheon (p. 334); 14 - Plan of the Pantheon (p. 336); 15 - Altar of the Pantheon (p. 342); 16 - Altar of the Pantheon (p. 346); 17 - Candelabrum (p. 347); 18 - General plan (p. 414). With the exception of plates 4, 11 and 12, which are full-page, all the others are fold-out. The engravings are, in general, very clean and well folded; only the engravings of the monument (6), the high altar (10) and the candelabrum (17) show some restorations, especially in the folds, visible only on the verso; engravings 13 to 17 with minor restorations on the inner margin; small wormholes on the upper margin of leaves Ss3 to Vv3 (8 leaves), marginally affecting four engravings. Otherwise, a very clean and complete copy. Contemporary binding, entirely of flexible parchment, missing the ties and with browning on the first double endpaper. Palau, 376974.