JANIN (Jules). Lot n° 41

JANIN (Jules). La Normandie. Illustrated by Messrs Morel-Fatio, Tellier, Gigoux, Daubigny, Debon, H. Bellangé, Alfred Johannot. Paris, Bourdin, s.d. (1843). Large in-8, publisher's binding in green chagrin, boards decorated with a large gilded portico with a cathedral with coats of arms and characters, spine decorated with the same, gilt edges. First printing. Engraved title-frontispiece with a vignette on steel, two maps, a portrait of Corneille on steel, 22 plates out of text also engraved on steel and about 180 woodcut vignettes in the text. Traces of oxidation on the endpapers.