Collectif - La Normandie Monumentale - 1899

Monumental and picturesque Normandy.
Public buildings, churches, castles, manors, etc.
Heliogravures by P. Dujardin after photographs by E. Durand, D. Freuler and A. Thiébaut.
Manche, Part I.
Text by Messrs. the Abbot Adam, J. Avoine, Charles de Beaurepaire, Eugène de Beaurepaire, Georges de Beaurepaire, Joseph de Beaurepaire, G. du Boscq de Beaumont, the Abbe Bouillet, H. Bourde de la Rogerie, Joseph Couraye du Parc, Desprairies, Louis Drouet, P. dd Farcy, the Abbe Godefroy, Gaétan Guillot, Oscar Havard, Commander H. Jouan, the Abbe A. Laveille, Paul Lecacheux, Alphonse Lenoir, Ed. Lepingard, the Abbe Le Rozier, Paul de Longuemare, Labbé Marie, A. Montier, the Chancellor E. A. Pigeon, Emile Travers.
Le Havre, Lemale et Cie, printers, publishers.
1899
Good used condition. Plates with loss of material and rubbed corners, scattered foxing.
The definitive reference book on La Manche at the end of the 19th century.
This monumental work is part of a series of five separate volumes on Normandy.
It contains 96 plates.
Most of the writers come from La Manche or own property there, as does the Beaurepaire family.
Weight: about 7 kg.