DULAURE, Jacques-Antoine. Physical, civil and moral history - Lot 88

DULAURE, Jacques-Antoine. Physical, civil and moral history of Paris. Paris, Furne et Cie, 1837. 8 volumes in 8 vols, small In-8, black half-basanes, smooth spines decorated with gilded false nerves. 464, 468, 519, 495, 499, 420, 384 and 423 pages, 58 illustrated plates. Epidermoles on four upper covers, spine of volume 8 a little insolate and small tear at bottom, one of the lower corners of volumes 5 and 8 missing, spots unevenly distributed but plates preserved overall. Atlas missing (rarely present). Paris. This work devoted to the soon-to-be City of Light features 58 full-page steel engravings, depicting the capital's most characteristic monuments, some of which no longer exist: the former Chatelet, the Concorde, the Grenelle Fountain, the Sorbonne, the Hôtel de Cluny... First illustrated edition, with new notes and an appendix by J.-L. Belin. Adjusted for changes since the original edition of 1825-1827, it offers the reader the chance to contemplate what the latter was longing to know. With engraved bookplate on the first flyleaf of each volume. A very fine set in its homogeneous period binding.