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New edition illustrated with an engraved title representing a gothic altarpiece, a portrait frontispiece, 8 plates bound at the beginning of the volume of which 3 are folding, and numerous in-text figures, gothic borders, etc...
Publisher's binding in full black morocco with decorative plaques. Smooth spine ornamented with a large Rocaille plaque. Boards stamped with a large Rocaille ornament. All edges gilt. Small scattered browning in the margins and on some engravings. Light rubbing. Fine copy.

First edition, illustrated with a folding map of Palestine in colors and 33 plates on chine collé mounted on strong paper. Text framed with a gothic wooden border. La vie de Jésus-Christ is followed by Objections contre le christianisme et réponses.
Contemporary full red morocco bindings with long grain (Russia leather) signed Malibert. Smooth spines richly decorated with a large plate. Boards decorated with a large central iron in the form of a cross and a large frame plate with various motifs. Frame fillets. Blue and red morocco doublures on the pastedowns with geometric decoration. Gilt edges. Headcaps lightly rubbed. Corners rubbed. A small tear to a lower border of 1cm. A hole on the lower joint of volume 2. Fresh set with light and rare small worming due to tissue guards on the margins of some engravings.
Splendid signed romantic binding perfectly executed in morocco with doublures.

First edition of this keepsake, illustrated with a title vignette and 24 steel engravings.
Romantic Boutigny-style binding in full wine-red shagreen morocco. Spine decorated with a large rocaille ornamental border. Boards stamped with a broad rocaille motif. All edges gilt. Spine sunned. Endpapers renewed. Fresh throughout, with some foxing in margins on good white paper. Handsome copy.
Texts by Chateaubriand, Janin, Amable Tastu, Walter Scott... Despite the title, the work has nothing whatsoever to do with Paris as a theme; it brings together, like any keepsake, diverse texts on travel, portraits...

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