Précisions sur un état présent de l'architecture et l'urbanisme Georges Crès & Cie | Paris 1930 | 16 x 25 cm | black half morocco
First edition for which no
grand papier (deluxe) copies were printed.
With 226 illustrations.
Three tiny angular holes on the wrappers, a glued tear at the top of the first cover, a pleasing copy.
Half black morocco, name of the author and title in
palladium, clear plexiglass boards revealing the wrappers, preserved.
Rare autograph inscription dated and signed by Le Corbusier to Marcel Poëte, a historian specialising in the history of Paris and its urbanism: “à Mr Marcel Poëte urbaniste où il y a quelques idées d'urbanisme. Avec ma vive sympathie.” [To Mr. Marcel Poëte, an urban planner with a few ideas about urbanism. With my deepest regards.]