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Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. 4° - 3 Issues - 89+47+28(XXVIII Ads)pp each issue- Color Plates (Toyokuni, R. Ménard, A. East, A. Mann, A. Urquart, V. Olgyal.) on and color & B/w reproductions. Text in English and French language. Original wrappers. In Very good condition.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good+. First Edition. 40 pp. + 20 tondo aquatint plates, half title. 8vo, 9 1/2x6 inches, contemporary 1/4 cloth rebacked, original printed paper label on upper cover; pencil annotations to a couple of plates, final plate foxed and with two folds. The aquatint plates in this copy are uncolored and the margins have been cut down, but the text is nice and clean and the impressions of the handsome plates are bright. A number of these Parisian landmarks no longer exist.…

Half Morocco. Marbled boards. Condizione: Near Fine. First Edition. 4to. 27 by 21 cm. 40 pp., plus 20 hand-colored aquatint plates of Parisian landmarks, many of which no longer exist (, les Tuileries, the prior opera house, Theatre de l'Ambigu Comique, Porte St. Antoine, Porte St. Bernard, Eglise de St. Chaumont, etc.). The illustrations are contained within circular frames, giving one the sense of peering through a peephole or window, and somehow sharpening one's focus on the structure being portrayed as well. Each plate is accompanies with a two page description and history. Abbey Travel 104. Lacking a half-title. A thoroughly clean copy otherwise.…

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to., (11 x 8 4/8 inches). Fine circular hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece of the interior of Notre Dame and 19 plates after Rosenburg. Modern blue morocco gilt by Bayntun of Bath, top edges gilt, others uncut. Provenance: from the library of Jacques Levy, his sale, Sotheby's, 20th April 2012, lot 336 First edition, and an ATTRACTIVE COPY, paper watermarked 1811. "The City of Paris has always been an object of much interest to the Traveller. Recent events, which have filled every mind with astonishment, gratitude, and joy, have rendered the Metropolis of France, now enriched with the choicest spoils of conquest, and the noblest specimens of art, doubly interesting. From every neighbouring kingdom, and especially from the shores of Britain, thousands have eagerly flocked to that Capital, formerly the scene of the most horrible atrocities, now the depository of the most valuable treasures. This volume contains a series of accurate and elegant Views of the principal Public Buildings in Paris, and affords a pleasing specimen of the peculiar style of French Architecture" (Preface). Abbey, Travel 104; Tooley, Books with col. plates 448. …

First edition. Published at 2 guineas coloured. Quarto (28 x 22cm). pp.[1-5],6,[7-8],40. An untrimmed copy with twenty circular coloured plates, all in aquatint. 20th C. half crushed morocco, gilt, teg, cloth sides, marbled endpapers. Vg. [Abbey Travel 104; Bobins 552; Tooley 448; Prideaux 350; Alexander 767]. …