Maquet, Auguste — Paris Sous Louis XIV: Monuments Et Vues

Paris, France, LaPlace, Sanchez Et Cie, 1883. Hardcover. black decorative printing w/ gilt illustrations, emblems; gilt printed spine. 346 pgs w/ bw illusrations, plates, frontispiece. all edges gilt. Text In French. Red cloth and decorative gilt images remain detailed and very bright; handsomely designed. Small, gilt ex-libris sticker to front pastedown corner. Good (boards scuffed & scratched. corners rubbed to boards. spine has an approx 7inch tear to back edge; spine cloth flapped & frayed w/ binding strip visible. corners rubbed to boards. spine ends rubbed. split to front hinge at opening pgs; joints intact. split to textblock; some separation of binding visible, though binding joints intact.) .