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BENOIST, Félix

La Bretagne contemporaine. Sites pittoresques, monuments, costumes

Paris and Nantes
Henri Charpentier
1865

€1.200 - €1.800

3 vol. in folio, map and 165 lithographed plates with tinted background by Arnout, Bachelier, Bayot, etc, including one in color by F. Benoist, some foxing and waterstains in some margins of 2 vol. Full cont. red shagreen, spine with 4 decorated bands, wide golden lace framing on the boards, with coat of arms in the centers in gold. Beautiful bindings despite the friction of use on the joints and edges of the covers (H. Carpentier fils, Nates).

Compl. first edition. Contains: T.I: Loire Inferieure: lii, 98p., 28 plates, 1 color map (the plate p. 93 ""New Hotel Dieu de Nantes, and the color map, are not mentioned in the table. Morbihan: 118p., 28 boards. T.II: Finistere: 126p., 54 plates. T.III: Cotes du Nord: 90p., 28 plates. Ille et Vilaine: 112-26p., 26 plates; Epilogue: 26p. Text by MM. Aurelien de Courson, Pol de Courcy, Gaultier du Mottay, E. de la Gournerie, Paul de la Bigne-Villeneuve, S. Ropartz... With a historical Introduction by De La Borderie, and an Epilogue on Breton poetry by De La Villemarque

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