[BRETAGNE]CHEVALIER, Pierre, and SOUVESTRE, Emile. Nantes an - Lot 78

[BRETAGNE]CHEVALIER, Pierre, and SOUVESTRE, Emile. Nantes and the Loire Inférieure. Monuments anciens & modernes, Sites & Costumes pittoresques. Abundant illustrations, excellent panorama of the Nantes region in the 19th century. Nantes, Charpentier, 1850. 2 parts in 1 in-folio volume, publisher's fir half-chagrin with corners, ribbed spine, gilded caissons, one with the coat of arms of Brittany. Approx. 800 pages, numerous color lithographs. Some foxing, three plates detached. First edition in two parts, presenting Nantes and its region. There are numerous plates showing the city's various monuments, its port and streets, as well as plates of typical costumes. A very fine work celebrating Nantes, with historical, archaeological and descriptive notes, by Pitre-Chevalier.by Pitre-Chevalier, Émile Souvestre, and a society of local men of letters, accompanied by 63 off-text plates in 2 or 3 colors drawn by Félix Benoist and lithographed by Bachelier, Bayot, Benoist, Bichebois, Chapuy, Ciceri, Cuvillier, Deroy, Fichot, Gaildrau, Guesdon, Jacottet, Mathieu, Rouargue, Sabatier, Tirpenne...10 out-of-text plates of costumes in 3 or 4 shades, drawn and lithographed by Hippolyte Lalaisse, and a map., Our collation conforms to that given by Brunet (Brunet 1, 776). Good condition, beautiful plates.