Author: Debans, Camille
Title: Les coulisses de l'Exposition (Universelle de 1889). Guide pratique et anecdotique. Avec dessins, plans, cartes, etc. etc..
Description: Paris, Ernest Kolb, Ernest Kolb, (1889). 8vo (19x11,5 cm). (iv),374 pp. Orig. illustrated wrappers, in colours (a bit soiled; sl. dam.). With 8 plates: frontispiece, 6 views and 1 plate with 5 circular portraits (Berger, Eifel, Alphand, Dutert & Formigé) and large folding leaf, 63x34 cm., with 4 plans: lithographs in colour by Hce. Perrin: 1) Exposition coloniale (Esplanade des Invalides) (32x19 cm), 2) Plan du Champ de Mars (19x41 cm), 3) Plan du Trocadère (15x13 cm), 4) Exposition d'agriculture (Quai d'Orsay) (7x23 cm). - The whole is executed on very fragile paper: some tears in folts repaired; the paper of all the plates seriously browned; textleaves age-toned, mainly to the margins. - On the whole an acceptable copy of the extremely rare first edition. Gewicht/Weight: 450 grs.

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