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First edition abundantly illustrated with wood engravings in text and plates.
Publisher's gilt red percale beveled binding signed Engel at tail. Smooth spine richly decorated with various ornaments inlaid in black. Large special plate with the arms of the city of Paris framed by 2 nude victories, 2 medals. Wide frieze of Greek keys and decorative border. Second board with succession of black frames. Brown endpapers. Gilt edges. Rubbing to headcaps, corners. Scattered foxing.
Handsome copy, quite solid and uniform, with sharp gilding.
Beyond the classic presentation of the exhibition, with its pavilions and the "wonders" of the Trocadero, this publication includes important chapters devoted to machines, mines, metallurgy, mechanics, railways and gas, but also lace, furniture, goldsmith's work, bronze, porcelain, and all the decorative arts.
New edition after the first, very rare, published in 1670. Huet's Treatise on the Origin of Novels, in the form of a letter to Segrais, appears at the end of the first part of Zaïde.
Armorial copy of Charlotte Emilie Le Fèvre de Caumartin de La cour de Balleroy, daughter of Louis-François Le Fèvre de Caumartin, lord of Boissy, and wife of the Marquis de la Cour de Balleroy. Feminine arms are rare and sought after, as few women formed libraries with their coat of arms. The Marquise de Balleroy, who died in 1749, settled in Normandy, and maintained an intense correspondence with the highest nobility from which she descended.
Full speckled brown calf bindings. Raised band spines with decorative tooling. Morocco title labels in tan, volume labels in speckled brown calf. Headcap of volume II split. A brown stain in corner of first 10 leaves of volume I, gradually fading, this stain recurring later, spreading then disappearing. A browner area at edge of right corner of volume I, on upper board. Despite some flaws, a handsome copy.
