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[SAUGRAIN, Claude-Marin]. Les Curiositez de Paris, de Versai…
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194
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[SAUGRAIN, Claude-Marin]. Les Curiositez de Paris, de Versai…
See original version (French)
Estimate €120 - €150
Voluntary lot
Description
[SAUGRAIN, Claude-Marin]. Les Curiositez de Paris, de Versailles, de Marly, de Vincennes, de Saint Cloud, et des environs... New edition. A Paris, chez Saugrain, 1723. 2 volumes in-12, (3) ff, 390 pp, (1) f. (notice) and p. (391)-719, (2) ff (approval, privilege, notice to the bookbinder); 8 pp. (bookseller's catalogue). Contemporary pebbled havana calf, spine ribbed and decorated with gilt fleurons, title page, gilt title, red edges (bindings rubbed, upper board detached in vol. I, 1 short introductory f. in vol. 1, a pagination error in vol. 2, some oxidation and small discreet brown spots). With 30 copper-engraved plates in black, including a plan of Lutetia in the frontispiece (opposite pp.1 of volume 1 in this copy), 20 of which are folding with some "panoramic" views. A much sought-after work. It shows the most emblematic buildings in and around Paris, including Notre-Dame, La Samaritaine and the Pont Neuf, the façades of the Louvre, various palaces, the Hôtel de Ville, the Observatoire, several gates and the châteaux of Versailles, Marly, Vincennes, Saint-Germain and Saint-Cloud. Part of this work is commonly attributed to Georges Louis Le Rouge, but he seems to have intervened on the text only after the death of the bookseller Saugrain, for the edition of the Libraires associés in 1771. Attached: FRANKLIN (Alfred). State, names and number of all the streets of Paris in 1636. According to the unpublished manuscript in the Bibliothèque nationale. Preceded by a study on roads and public hygiene in Paris since the 12th century. Paris, Léon Willem, 1873, in-12, 167 pp. index. Half navy morocco with corners outlined with gilt fillet, spine ribbed and decorated in the neo-gothic style, with gilt stippling and rose and interlace boxes, gilt head. Edition of 350 numbered copies only. One of the copies on Vosges laid paper. In a fine and attractive binding, unsigned but very well executed. Cover preserved with a letter from the author to Mr Martin in pen.
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