Eusèbe GIRAULT de SAINT-FARGEAU. Guide pittoresque... Lot 21

Eusèbe GIRAULT de SAINT-FARGEAU. Guide pittoresque du voyageur en France, contenant la statistique et la description complète des 86 départements Paris, Firmin Didot, 1838. - Statistical overview of France. Ibid, id., 1836. 6 volumes in-8, red half-maroquin, beautifully decorated smooth spines (period binding). I. (2f.)-20 issues / II. (2f.)-24 issues / III. (2f.)-20 issues / IV. (2f.)-23 issues / V. (2f.)-21 issues / VI. (2f.)-10 issues-(2f.)-135-6-70. Important publication intended as a perfect description of France, with text folios, steel-engraved plates and a fold-out map for each department. It was published in separately paginated issues with unequal numbers of pages. The issues are randomly bound here. Each volume is preceded by 2 unnumbered leaves, and the work ends with a Statistical Overview of France by Girault de Saint-Fargeau (1836) of (2f.)-135 and 70. Our copy contains an engraved title dated 1835, 747 hors-texte plates of portraits, views and monuments, and 86 hors-texte maps of the départements. The large map is missing. Minor rubbing to edges and corners, heavy wetness to sixth volume.