Jacques-Antoine DULAURE
Histoire physique, civile et morale de Paris…
[History, Physical, Civil and Moral, of Paris…]
Au bureau des Publications illustrées|Paris 1842|16.5 x 25.5 cm|4 volumes reliés
Seventh edition, expanded with new annotations and an appendix containing descriptive and historical details on all the monuments recently erected in the capital by J.-L. Belin, avocat.
Bound in contemporary half midnight-blue Russian morocco, flat spines gilt with romantic arabesques, gilt fillet framing the marbled-paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns; one lower corner lightly rubbed, contemporary bindings.
Scattered foxing.
Illustrated with 58 plates (including 11 archaeological plates), together with 5 folding colour plans hors texte.
A handsomely preserved copy in a period romantic binding.
€800