Villefranche-Sur-Saône (Rhône)

First edition.
Preface by André Maurois, preliminary remarks by Georges Rozet, historiographer of the Confrérie du Tastevin.
Handsome copy of this work crowned with the Prize of the International Wine Office.
Dedicatee's bookplate pasted on endpaper.
Amusing autograph inscription dated and signed by Louis Orizet to Henri Roquefort: "... dont le nom prédestiné, prédestinait à l'amour du bon vin." ["... whose predestined name, predestined him to the love of good wine."]

First edition.
Autograph inscription signed by Léon Foillard.
Work decorated with a frontispiece by P. Burnot, drawings by J. Limonon as well as photographic plates.
Preface by Justin Godart.
Spine sunned and cracked with dampstain at head, boards marginally sunned and also with corner tears, handsome interior condition.

First edition.
Half caramel morocco binding, spine with five raised bands, date at foot, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Complete copy with its folding map and rate table.
The history of towns, villages and castles, the description of places and monuments, details of the route, the nomenclature of metalliferous deposits and coal mines, their nature, their richness and their exploitation conditions, agricultural and industrial statistics...
Some minor foxing of no consequence.
Rare.