592 - Dessaix, Joseph – Eyma, Xavier.
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Estimate €800 - €1,200

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Dessaix, Joseph – Eyma, Xavier. – Nice and Savoy. Picturesque sites, monuments, descriptions and history of the departments of Savoie, Haute-Savoie and Alpes-Maritimes… incorporated into France in 1860. Preceded by an introduction by A. de Jussieu. Paris, Henri Charpentier, 1864. 3 volumes bound together in 2 folio volumes, half-shagreen bound with cloth covers decorated with a large gilt title plate; ribbed spines adorned with large gilt fleurons and the coats of arms of the County of Savoy (volumes 1–2) and the County of Nice (Volume 3) – A small tear to the tail cap of Vol. 1–2, scuffs and small wormholes (of no consequence) on both volumes, rare foxing, very faint water stain on the right-hand margin of Vol. I (barely visible) – [1 folio title page with vignette], XX pp. (foreword, introduction), 64 pp.; [3 folios, title folio, title page, half-title], 62 pp.; [2 leaves, title frontispiece, title page], VI pp. (introduction), [1 leaf, half-title], 42 pp. Illustrated with 2 frontispieces, 2 maps (Nice and Savoy – Alpes-Maritimes), and 88 beautiful colour lithographs drawn by Félix Benoist and lithographed in colour by Ciceri and Sabatier (26, 37 and 25 respectively).

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592 - Dessaix, Joseph – Eyma, Xavier. See original version (French)

592 - Dessaix, Joseph – Eyma, Xavier.
See original version (French)