Author: Allier, Achille
Title: L'ancien Bourbonnais, (Histoire, Monumens, Moeurs, Statistique.) continu par Adolphe Michel, grav et lithographi sous la direction de Aim Chenavard, d'aprs les dessins et documens de Dufour. Par une socit d'Artistes.
Description: Moulins, Imprimerie de Desrosiers fils, Libraire-diteur, 1833-1837 2 vols. (of 3: Text only). Large folio (45x33 cm). Contemporary half leather, with cornerpieces; spines gilt; covers decorated paper; marbled endpapers (tops and feet spines partly damaged; hinges with tears but still holding strong; upper margin frontcover vol. 1 damaged)). Titles printed in red and black, with title-vignettes (printer's mark of Desrosier). (iv),(xx),670, (ii) and (xx),268,404 pp. With frontispiece-portrait of Allier engraved by Dupont and plate with annotated music "Chansons Bourbonnaises" and 7 other plates in text (facs. of XVIth cent. ms. with each 2 full length portraits). With decorated initials, head- and tailpieces, some very large with nice scenery around, and with 29 other illustrations (12 coats of arms, 2 seals, 3 coins, inhabitants, etc.) partly signed by E. Sagot. - The work is divided in 5 parts. Subtitles printed in red. - Vol. I (1833): 1) Histoire du Bourbonnais (110 pp.), 2) Les Sires de Bourbon (p. 111-40=20.), 3) Les Ducs de Bourbon (p. 421-670); Vol. II (1837): 4) Les Ducs de Bourbon (suite) (284 pp.), 5) Voyage pittoresque. At the end: L. Batissier, 'Excursion Marche et Berry'. (404 pp.). - Lightbrown spots throughout (most seriously to the titles and 1 plate ("Chansons")), some quires discolored. - With engraved ex-libris, pasted in on first endpapers of the 2 vols.: "Bibliotheca Lindesiana" (Library of J. L. Lindsay, earl of Crawford). - Rare, interesting, set of the first edition, alas the Atlas (1838) with lithographs missing. Gewicht/Weight: 13500 grs.
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Title: L'ancien Bourbonnais, (Histoire, Monumens, Moeurs, Statistique.) continu par Adolphe Michel, grav et lithographi sous la direction de Aim Chenavard, d'aprs les dessins et documens de Dufour. Par une socit d'Artistes.
Description: Moulins, Imprimerie de Desrosiers fils, Libraire-diteur, 1833-1837 2 vols. (of 3: Text only). Large folio (45x33 cm). Contemporary half leather, with cornerpieces; spines gilt; covers decorated paper; marbled endpapers (tops and feet spines partly damaged; hinges with tears but still holding strong; upper margin frontcover vol. 1 damaged)). Titles printed in red and black, with title-vignettes (printer's mark of Desrosier). (iv),(xx),670, (ii) and (xx),268,404 pp. With frontispiece-portrait of Allier engraved by Dupont and plate with annotated music "Chansons Bourbonnaises" and 7 other plates in text (facs. of XVIth cent. ms. with each 2 full length portraits). With decorated initials, head- and tailpieces, some very large with nice scenery around, and with 29 other illustrations (12 coats of arms, 2 seals, 3 coins, inhabitants, etc.) partly signed by E. Sagot. - The work is divided in 5 parts. Subtitles printed in red. - Vol. I (1833): 1) Histoire du Bourbonnais (110 pp.), 2) Les Sires de Bourbon (p. 111-40=20.), 3) Les Ducs de Bourbon (p. 421-670); Vol. II (1837): 4) Les Ducs de Bourbon (suite) (284 pp.), 5) Voyage pittoresque. At the end: L. Batissier, 'Excursion Marche et Berry'. (404 pp.). - Lightbrown spots throughout (most seriously to the titles and 1 plate ("Chansons")), some quires discolored. - With engraved ex-libris, pasted in on first endpapers of the 2 vols.: "Bibliotheca Lindesiana" (Library of J. L. Lindsay, earl of Crawford). - Rare, interesting, set of the first edition, alas the Atlas (1838) with lithographs missing. Gewicht/Weight: 13500 grs.
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Price: EUR 800.00 = appr. US$ 869.48 Seller: Boekhandel-Antiquariaat Emile Kerssemakers
- Book number: 52833
- Book number: 52833