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21 - Maxime du CAMP. A set of 12 bound volumes:
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Estimate €180 - €200
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Maxime du CAMP. A set of 12 bound volumes: - Paris. Its institutions, its functions and its life in the second half of the 19th century. Paris, Hachette, 1873–1876, 6 in-8 volumes in half-shagreen binding with corner caps, ribbed spines. Volume 1: The Post Office – The Telegraph – Public Carriages – The Railways – The River Seine in Paris; Volume 2: Food – Bread, Meat and Wine – The Central Market Halls – Tobacco – Currency – The Bank of France; Volume 3: Criminals – The Police – The Assize Court – Prisons – The Guillotine – Prostitution; Volume 4: Begging – Public Assistance – Hospitals – Foundlings – Old Age (Bicêtre and La Salpêtrière) – The Insane; Volume 5: The Pawnbroker’s – Education – The Deaf and Dumb – Young Blind People – The Waterworks – Street Lighting – The Sewers; Volume 6: The Wealth of Paris – Civil Registration – Cemeteries – Ancillary Institutions (Theatres, Libraries, Newspapers, Auxiliary Organisations) – The Pariser – Tables. - *Les Convulsions de Paris*. Paris, Hachette, 1879–1880, 4 volumes, in-8, half-shagreen binding with corner pieces, ribbed spine. Ex-libris: Bibliothèque de la Chassagne. - Private Charity in Paris. Paris, Hachette, 1885, in-8, half-shagreen binding, ribbed spine. - Benevolent Paris. Paris, Hachette, 1888, in-8, half-shagreen binding, ribbed spine. Heraldic bookplate of the Bibliothèque du Château de Louppy. Appraiser: Cabinet Valleriaux [email protected] Please request the condition reports: they are not included in the descriptions.
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About the sale I – Antique books: Literature – Illustrated works – Costumes – Paris.
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Auction time 09/28/2026 at 2:00 PM
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