PITRE-CHEVALIER. Ancient and modern Brittany. Ancient Britta - Lot 608

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PITRE-CHEVALIER. Ancient and modern Brittany. Ancient Britta - Lot 608
PITRE-CHEVALIER. Ancient and modern Brittany. Ancient Brittany from its origins to its reunion with France. History, institutions, customs, countries, traditions, etc. with a precise description of the facts since the reunion and a picture of present-day Brittany. Paris, Didier, 1859. Large in-8, half night blue chagrin of the period, spine with 4 nerves, author and title gilt, caissons decorated with fleurs de lys, gilt edges (one book partly disbound, boards a little faded, spine slightly rubbed, a few russets). Compositions by T. Johannot, A. Leleux, O. Penguilly, Rouargue, engraved on steel hors-texte, or on wood in the text, a map and plates of costumes in colours. Attached: - PITRE-CHEVALIER. Brittany and Vendée. History of the French Revolution in the West (complement of La Bretagne ancienne et moderne). Paris, W. Coquebert, [1845-1848]. Large volume in-8, black cloth boards, polychrome decoration on boards and spine [Haarhaus], gilt edges [Lenègre] (slight rubbing, more sustained at the edge of the upper spine partly split; sporadic browning, 1 plate bound head to foot, others heavily browned due to the paper used) Illustrated with numerous woodcut vignettes in the text, notably after A. Leleux, O. Penguilly, T. Johannot, a coloured hors-texte map, a frontispiece and 7 plates of coats of arms in chromolithography, and 31 steel or woodcut plates. That is 2 volumes.
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