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184 - TRAMBLAIS, de la. DE LA VILLEGILLE.
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Estimate €80 - €100
Description
TRAMBLAIS, de la. DE LA VILLEGILLE. Picturesque Sketches of the Department of Indre. Chateauroux, J.-B. Migné, 1854. Large quarto, VII-334-(1) pp., colour title page and frontispiece, plates and fold-out map. Contemporary gilt vellum, spine with faux raised bands edged with black fillet, gilt title, compartments decorated with gilt metalwork and gilt fillet, double framing of multiple gilt fillets with metalwork at the corners, gilt headband (foxing on the binding and interior, upper joint split by a few centimetres). Description: A 19th-century Castelroussine print in its contemporary gilt vellum binding. The illustrations consist of a colour-enhanced frontispiece title page, numerous lithographed plates by Isodore Meyer in black, and a fold-out map. Decorative lithographed borders on the text pages. REGIONALISM. LOIRE.
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