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2 volumes.Illustrated with 49 chromolithograph plates and 14 lithograph plates (mostly duo-tone) from drawings by Fedor Hoffbauer; 23 maps and plans with glassine overlays with keys printed in orange (3 maps are printed in 2 colors); 1 double-page facsimile map of Paris; plus numerous wood-engravings in text. Text by A. Bonnardot, Jules Cousin, Èdouard Fournier, Paul LaCroix, and others. (folio) 17½x12½, period half morocco, spine gilt-lettered with raised bands, top edge gilt. Second Edition.

A comprehensive and spectacular work portraying in chromolithography the evolution over the centuries of the great buildings and landmarks of Paris. Bookplates of Cortland Field Bishop and of Alfred Heacock Whittaker.