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Description de Paris et de Ses Édifices, avec un précis historique et des observations sur le caractère de leur architecture, et sur les principaux objets d'art et de curiosité qu'ils renferment [vol. 2]
by Legrand, Jacques-Guillaume; Landon, Charles-Paul
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
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About This Item
Paris: Treuttel et Würtz, 1818. Hardcover. Very Good. "Seconde Édition, Corrigée avec soin dans toutes ses Parties, et considérablement augmentée; avec dix-huit Planches nouvelles." Vol. 2 only: 248 p., 58 leaves of engraved plates (one folded): plans and elevations; 22 cm. Original green wrappers bound in, printed in black; publisher's catalog on back wrapper. Plain grey paper over board; black leather spine label with gilt-tooled title; gilt-tooled former owner's? initials at head of spine. Several leaves of plates are misnumbered; there are 58 total plates. Beautifully illustrated guide to the architecture of early 19th-century Paris. In Very Good Condition: spine and upper edges of boards sunned; paper split over front joint; minor loss at ends of spine and one edge of spine label; pages and plates are clean and crisp.
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- Classic Books and Ephemera
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- 005554
- Title
- Description de Paris et de Ses Édifices, avec un précis historique et des observations sur le caractère de leur architecture, et sur les principaux objets d'art et de curiosité qu'ils renferment [vol. 2]
- Author
- Legrand, Jacques-Guillaume; Landon, Charles-Paul
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Treuttel et Würtz
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1818
- Bookseller catalogs
- Architecture; Travel & Exploration; Prints, Engravings, & Photographs;
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- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
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