La France pittoresque et monumentale - Corse, Versailles, Notre-Dame, Riviera – 10 volumes, gravures et plans dépliants - 1912-1928

Pictorial and monumental France – Superb set of 10 ancient volumes in uniform bindings

An invitation to rediscover early 20th-century France, its landscapes, its traditions, its emblematic monuments, and the riches of its historical and architectural heritage.

This remarkable library brings together ten works devoted to the most beautiful sites in France, from Corsica to the Riviera, from the Grandes Chartreuse massif to the prestigious monuments of Paris and Versailles.

Composition of the collection:

* Henri Aurenche – Along the roads of Corsica.
* Albert Surier – Our Corsica – Studies and reminiscences, preface by Lorenzi de Bradi.
* Lorenzi de Bradi – The Unknown Corsica.
* Georges and Pierre Paul – Our Lady of Le Puy.
* Paul Vitry and Gaston Brière – The Abbey Church of Saint-Denis and its tombs.
* Marcel Aubert – The Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris.
* Mauricheau-Beaupré and Hennet de Goutel – The Château of Versailles and its gardens.
* Antoine Baton – In the Land of the Carthusians.
* Maurice Prax – Along the shores of the Riviera.
* Henri Stein – The Palais de justice and the Sainte-Chapelle of Paris.

Ensemble enriched with numerous illustrations, old photographs, full-page engravings and remarkable fold-out architectural plans, notably of Versailles, Saint-Denis and the Sainte-Chapelle.

Very elegant uniform red half-leather bindings, spines adorned with borders and gilt titles, boards in marbled paper. Several original covers have been preserved.