[Rarebooks] FS: Tinted and Hand-colored Views of Paris

[Charles Agvent]

BENOIST, Ph[illippe] & JACOTTET, J[ean]. NOUVELLES VUES DE PARIS. Paris: 
Auguste Bry for Gilhaut Frères, [1870]. Nouvelle Edition. Oblong folio 
(15-1/2" x 11") bound in contemporary pebbled brown cloth with gilt 
lettering on the spine. Illustrated with a lithograph title page 
featuring a map of Paris and 36 numbered tinted lithographs, 18 of which 
have contemporary handcoloring, by Jacottet, Bachelier, and Benoist. In 
addition there are 8 tinted lithographs, not numbered consecutively, by 
A. Provost from PARIS ET SES ENVIRONS, thus giving a total of 44 
lithographs in this volume. Plates generally clean except for one which 
is quite foxed. Near Fine. (#016769)        $1,500.00

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