Auguste Vitu - Paris il y a 100 ans vu par Auguste Vitu - 1975

Paris a century ago as seen by Auguste VITU
490 drawings from the period, after nature (reproduced as facsimiles).

Editions Jean de Bonnot (bookseller's trading tenant at the Canon sign), Paris, 1975 (27 x 20 cm), 512 pages, with index.

Full leather binding in silver, decorated surfaces in the Art Nouveau style, spine with large decoration and titles, gilded top edge.

Condition: Very good overall condition, corners rubbed, scratch on the back (see photos).

Paris at the end of the 19th century through the two universal exhibitions, the one in 1867 (General view of Paris from above, The Seine, The streets of Paris, The city, The Left Bank of the Seine, The Right Bank of the Seine), and the 1889 universal exhibition.