Eugène De La Gournerie - Histoire de Paris et de ses monuments - 1854

Fascinating illustrated edition with fine steel-engraved plates hors-texte by Rouargue, Giradet, Ruhierre, Outwhaite, including one engraving with a general view of Paris in the Middle Ages by Rouargue in the frontispiece -

This vast work, published by the Mame house in Tours, illustrates the scholarly ambition of the 19th century to retrace the historical and architectural evolution of the French capital through its monuments -

Eugène De La Gournerie offers a methodical synthesis, blending historical narrative, topographic description and artistic analysis, in order to show how religious, civil and military edifices embody the memory and identity of Paris -

Eugène De La Gournerie - History of Paris and its monuments - 1854 - Tours -
660 Pages.

Good binding condition, the work in its original red half-leather binding, marbled endpapers, rubbed, some epidermises (scuffs), a few minor defects on the cover, rubs on the edges, gilt edges, smooth spine adorned with gold motifs, title in gilt letters -

Good interior condition, some stains, beautiful vignette on the title page, the work enriched with superb hors-texte steel engravings by Rouargue, Giradet, Ruhierre, Outwhaite, including one engraving with a general view of Paris in the Middle Ages by Rouargue in the frontispiece, marbled free endpapers in good condition, a pleasing copy -

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