La Bretagne contemporaine. Sites pittoresques, monuments, costumes, scènes de moeurs, histoire, légendes, traditions et usages des cinq départements de cette province

First edition illustrated with 167 plates drawn from life by Félix Benoist and lithographed by leading Parisian artists including Arnout, Bachelier, Benoist, David, Fichot, Tirpenne...
Bound in half bottle-green shagreen, spines with four raised bands framed with gilt rolls and decorated with double gilt panels featuring typographic motifs and gilt heraldic ermines, gilt names and places at the foot, covers of bottle-green percaline framed with a broad gilt lace border enriched with heraldic ermines and gilt armorials, boards stamped in the centre with the gilt arms of Brittany and of the city of Nantes within a gilt mandorla, white moiré silk endleaves and pastedowns, publisher's bindings.
Historical introduction by Arthur de La Borderie, epilogue on Breton poetry by De La Villemarqué, descriptive texts by Aurélien de Courson, Pol de Courcy, Ropartz, A. de La Borderie, De La Villemarqué...
Some minor foxing, not affecting the text or plates.
A handsome copy in a fine publisher's binding with the arms of Brittany and the city of Nantes.