LABORDE (Alexandre, count of). Versailles... - Lot 99 - Pierre Bergé & Associés

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LABORDE (Alexandre, count of). Versailles... - Lot 99 - Pierre Bergé & Associés
LABORDE (Alexandre, count of). Versailles ancient and modern. Paris, Imprimerie d'A. Everat et Cie, 1839. Large in-8, half lavaliere long-grained morocco with corners, spine ribbed and decorated, untrimmed. illustrated white cover and spine preserved (G. Mercier, sr de son père, 1913). First edition. Beautiful publication, very copiously illustrated with an ornate faux-title, a frontispiece, a copper-engraved map of the Routes from Paris to Versailles and hundreds of woodcuts in the text, as well as 14 vignettes engraved on steel and pasted in in the frames provided for this purpose. The whole gives a complete description of the castle and the gardens of Versailles Nice copy in perfect condition with the first title, rare according to Carteret (III, p. 347), bearing the imprimatur of Everat and the date of 1839, mentions replaced by the later replaced by the date of 1841 and the heading Paris, Imprimerie Schneider et Langrand. From the library of Alfred Clericeau with ex-libris.
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