an old book with a brown cover sitting on top of a white tablean open book with a picture of the title of a poeman old photo of a lake with boats in itan open book with a black and white photo of a churchan open book with a picture of a man in a suit and tie on it
Daguerre Val de Loire

44 - [Brittany]. ROBUCHON. DU CHATELLIER (Paul); DUCREST DE VILLE…
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Estimate €180 - €250
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[Brittany]. ROBUCHON. DU CHATELLIER (Paul); DUCREST DE VILLENEUVE (Emile). Landscapes and Monuments of Brittany Photographed by Jules Robuchon. Pont-L’Abbé-Lambour, Fouesnant and Plogastel-Saint-Germain. Paris, May and Motteroz, 1892. Folio, 87 pp., plates, illustrations, modern brown half-shagreen with modern corners, spine with 5 raised bands, author’s name, title and frontispiece gilded, gilded and embossed fleurons, gilded head (3 corners blunt, moderate foxing along the margins of the plates and on a few pages of text). The work is illustrated with 26 heliogravure plates based on the negatives of Jules Robuchon (1840–1922), a photographer and sculptor from Poitiers. A complete, stand-alone volume from a series of three published in instalments. This volume brings together instalments 14 to 27, the covers of which are preserved at the end. The text is illustrated with 97 figures in heliogravure or wood engraving. Limited edition of 400 copies.
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