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Title: Album Pratique d'Ornements applicables à la construction civile, industrielle et agricole...fondé le 1e janvier 1857 (title changes in =) Album Pratique de L'Art Industriel -> L'Art Industriel.
Description: .: 7. Paris, Victor Dalmont, in-folio, 37 x 27 cm, 1857-1862, 6 years bound in one volume, 1(1857) title + 12 pp +20 plates ; 2(1858) title + 20 pp + 30 plates ; 3(1859) title + 32 pp + 30 plates ; 4(1860) title + 24 pp + 26 plates ; 5(1861) title + (16 pp) + (18 plates) (this year lacks title, plates 1.2. 11-14. and two issues September-December) ; 6(1862) title + 28 pp + 26 plates. Bound in one half cloth volume. (some foxing and slight stains, but in all an acceptable condition. Early periodical devoted to the decorative arts and ornamentation, with attention to garden design, street furniture etc. Some of the plates depict the outlays of French parks; e.g. 1860(1-2) View of the Grande Serre du Jardin des Plantes à Bordeaux, 1862(1-2) Vue Générale and map of the Parc du Monceau. In the text part there is also a section devoted to photography. Rare. In the collective catalogue of the French National Library there are only one complete and one incomplete year. .

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