Edme BOVINET

First edition, handsomely illustrated with six engraved title-frontispieces and seventy plates on thick wove paper, with tissue guards, whereas most recorded copies contain only sixty; all etched by François Louis Couché and finished with the burin by Bovinet.

Bradel-style half grey percaline bindings, spines decorated with gilt fleurons and fillets, brown morocco title labels, French curl paper pastedowns.

Light rubbing to the bindings, some foxing and soiling, rather conspicuous restorations and small marginal losses to a few leaves, not affecting the text.

Manuscript ownership inscription on the half-title of each volume, in the barely legible name of a lieutenant...