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a red book with gold trimming on the coveran open book with a black and white image of a buildinga picture of a wall with a picture of a coat of arms on itan open book sitting on top of a table next to a cup of coffeean open book with a picture of a church and a building
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BOURASSÉ La Touraine Tours, Alfred Mame et Cie, 1856. Folio in red morocco with lace trim, binding lined with green morocco and fleur-de-lis motifs, gilt edges (L. Smeers) Half-title page, title page, 610 pp., (1) p., 4 full-colour chromolithographs (including the frontispiece), 14 steel engravings out of the text after Karl Girardet and Français, 1 map out of the text and 262 woodcut vignettes in the text The most famous and the most beautiful work devoted to Touraine. This book has been unanimously hailed as the masterpiece of typography and illustration of its century. Presented at the 1855 Universal Exhibition in Paris, it was awarded the Grand Medal of Honour by the international jury. Brunet I, 1174; Taschereau, 17. Carteret, *Le Trésor du bibliophile*, III, 103. Pierre Duchemin, ‘Abbé Bourassé and two monumental works: *La Touraine, Histoire et Monuments* and *La Sainte Bible*, drawings by Gustave Doré’, Mémoires de la Société archéologique de Touraine, LXX, 2013, pp. 73–85. A very fine copy
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Auction time 10/21/2026 at 10:00 AM
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