La Touraine ancienne et moderne

First edition with first printing of the illustrations.
Publisher's romantic blue cloth binding by Haarhaus, smooth spine richly decorated with gilt and polychrome ornament, boards decorated with gilt and polychrome ornament, edges gilt.
Illustrated with 33 hors-texte plates including the frontispiece in gold and colors (Tours Cathedral), 15 wood-engraved vignettes, 10 steel-engraved portraits and 6 plates of coats of arms, numerous vignettes in the text.