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Amable TASTU, Adolphe ROUARGUE

Voyage en France

Ad Mame et Cie, Tours 1846, In-8 (15,8x24,1cm), relié.

Edition originale, illustrée de 4 hors-texte sur acier et sur velin fort par Rouargue, une vignette de titre et des illustrations in-texte.
Reliure en cartonnage de l'éditeur en percaline marine à grains de riz. Dos orné d'une plaque spéciale avec bateau, train, un marcheur assis avec sa [...]

600 €

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Abel HUGO

France pittoresque et monumentale ou description pittoresque, topographique et statistique des ...

Chez Delloye, Paris 1835, 3 tomes en 3 vol. Grd. in-8 (18x28cm), 320pp. et 320pp. et 320pp., reliés.

Edition originale, 470 planches gravées dont 363 vues et portraits, 94 cartes des départements, 8 plans de villes, un tableau ainsi que 3 cartes de France dépliantes... et surtout, le plan de Paris de 1834 de Monin presque toujours absent, au tome 3.
Reliures en demi veau blond d'époque. [...]

350 €

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Jean-Louis VAUDOYER & Charles SAMSON

Images de France

Les Heures claires, Paris s.d. (1951), 16x24,5cm, en feuilles sous chemise et étui.

Original illustrated edition of 12 original drypoints by Charles Samson, one of the numbered copies.
Back of the shirt and edges of the case slightly exposed, nice copy.

40 €

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Joseph Mallord William TURNER, LEITCH RITCHIE

The rivers of France, from drawings by Turner

Henry G. Bohn, London 1857, Fort grd. in-8 (18,5x28cm), 336pp., relié.

First edition illustrated with a title engraved with a vignette of the chateau Gaillard and 61 inserts on steel by Turner and engraved by Higham, Brendard, Smith, Willmore ... The whole on strong vellum.
Publisher's binding in full shagreen green leather. Richly decorated false nerves back. [...]

700 €

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Abel HUGO

La France pittoresque ou description pittoresque, topographique et statistique des départements et ...

Chez Delloye, Paris 1835, 18,5x27,5cm, 3 volumes reliés.

First illustrated edition of 471 etchings including 4 unfolding. Binding signed Desloge.
Binders of the time in blue half calf, smooth backs adorned with lace, wheels and gilded nets, signature of the editor at the tail of the first volume, paper plates in the bowl.
Some corners blunt, [...]

300 €

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Henri BOLAND

Coins de France. Brie - Ardennes - Normandie - Bretagne - Anjou - Massif Central - Pyrénées

Hachette & Cie, Paris 1910, 11,5x18,5cm, relié.

Original edition.
Bound in half red shagreen, back with five nerves decorated with gilded florets, marbled paper dishes, first dish with the golden words "Lycée Montaigne," guards and contreplats of handmade paper, binding of the time.
Book illustrated with 57 engravings from photographs.

40 €

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Amable TASTU

Voyage en France

Alfred Mame & fils, Tours 1852, 16x25cm, relié.

Second edition illustrated with a frontispiece, map double-page engravings as well as 5 text-off Rouargue.
Binding half black shagreen, back with four nerves decorated with fine nets and triple black boxes, flat black cardboard, slightly blunt lower corner guards and contreplats of handmade [...]

100 €

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Fernand MAURETTE

Toute la France. Nouvelle géographie illustrée

Hachette , Paris 1933, 16,5x25cm, broché.

First edition.
Richly illustrated.
Slight foxing, not serious, to endpapers.
A good copy retaining its illustrated dust jacket.

60 €

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