Live auction - Lot 1085
[France - Paris]
Guide des amateurs et des étrangers voyageurs à Paris, ou Description raisonnée de cette ville, de sa banlieue, et de tout ce qu'elles contiennent de remarquable. Enrichie de vues perspectives des principaux monuments modernes.
Paris, Hardouin & Gattey, 1787
Hammer price: €
100
€ 150 / 250
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Lot description
2 vol., 12mo: xl-784, 739 pp.; 12 pl. (marg. dampstaining to upper margins, spotting and foxing, some ff. toned).
Contemp. marbled calf, gilt orn. spines with raised bands, red edges (sl. rubbing, wormholes to joints of vol. I, front joint of vol. I starting to split, sm. part of leather unstuck to head of vol. II).
First edition of this Paris travel guide illustrated with 12 fold. plates.
Ref. BnF.
Prov. Library Galeazzini, i.e. Giovanni Battista Galeazzini (1759-1833), Mayor of Bastia and Prefect? (stamp).