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GAVARD (Charles) & JANIN (Jules). Historical...

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GAVARD (Charles) & JANIN (Jules). Historical galleries of Versailles, dedicated to S. M. La Reine des Français. And supplements. Ch. Gavard publisher, Rue du Marché Saint-Honoré, printing house of Eugène Duverger, Paris, 1838. Published by order of king Louis-Philippe. Rare set of 18 large folio volumes (58,5 x 43,5 cm), containing plans and numerous engravings, dedicated according to the author to "reproduce in its infinite details all this palace where, thanks to King Louis-Philippe the First, all the great actions and all the Great Men of France have found an asylum and a memory". Complete with its table, in a nineteenth volume. Spine with gilt iron titles, boards covered with brown grained chagrin. brown grained chagrin. Wear to the corners, foxing, volumes appearing very complete but not collated, as is