Legrand, J. G. and C. P. Landon — Description de Paris et de ses édifices, avec un précis historique et des observations sur le caractère de leur architecture et sur les principaux objets d'art et de curiosité qu'ils renferment… Seconde édition.

Paris, Treuttel et Würtz, 1818. Four parts in two. 8vo (19.9 x 12.3 cm). 652 pp. [viii, 386; 248]; 115 [57; 58] engraved, numbered plates and one large, folded, engraved map of Paris. Near contemporary quarter calf over tree-calf-resembing paper boards. Spines with gilt ornamental bands and two green morocco labels, of which the lower one with blind-rolled borders. Marbled endpapers. = Very rare true second, enlarged, edition, with a large, folded map of Paris and 115 plates The first edition, which is fairly common, has only 98 plates. A 1842 edition sometimes called second edition is merely a reprint of this edition. Provenance: on the front pastedown a mineralogical bookplate of the French mineralogist and professor at the École des Mines, Claude Jean Guy Guillemin (1923-1994), who was a co-founder of the International Mineralogical Association. One spine foot (lowest 8 millimeters) repaired; otherwise, very good, clean.