ABUS de PARIS (Les), by M*** (J.-B. Viollet d'Epagny)... Lot 2

ABUS de PARIS (Les), by M*** (J.-B. Viollet d'Epagny) and Francis Girault. Illustrations by Messrs. Emile, A. Baron and Seigneurgens. Paris, Breteau, 1844. Large in-8, half red morocco with corners, spine ribbed, illustrated cover preserved, untrimmed (Stroobants). First printing. Frontispiece, 30 pen-and-ink lithographs outside the text and 200 woodcut vignettes in the text. "One of the rarest illustrated works of this period" (Carteret, III, p. 30). Two different illustrated prospectuses enclosed, one in duplicate. From the libraries of Paul Gavault (bookplate) and Victor Mercier (I, 1937, n° 355).