Lenormant

First edition.
Bradel bindings in full dark blue boards, smooth spines decorated with gilt fillets and cold-stamped fleurons, gilt friezes at foot, marbled paper boards, yellow and speckled edges, contemporary bindings.
The atlas contains 29 engraved plates printed separately.
Some rubbing at head and foot of spines with a lack at foot of the fifth volume, small dampstains at foot of front board of the fourth volume and at head of fore-edge, occasional foxing.
Set in uniform boards and complete with its atlas.
One of the most famous works on Spain. Archaeologist and politician, Alexandre de Laborde (1773-1842) was sent in 1800 to Lucien Bonaparte's Embassy in Madrid.

Fourth edition with some parts in first edition as it was revised, corrected and expanded with more than 400 new articles.
Rare and handsome copy presented in its original wrappers.

First edition. In conjugate leaves. Outer margins browned on the title page. Dandrée discusses at length in this salon review Girodet and his Atala, and the characteristics of the French school. Denon was director general of the Napoleon museum and of the mint.

New edition published in the posthumous works of Jean-François Marmontel.
Half red shagreen bindings, smooth spines decorated with gilt typographical motifs, red cardboard boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges, corners very slightly bumped without significance, contemporary bindings.
Handsome copy despite light foxing.