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Le Touriste en chemin de fer, ca. 1850, with 22 hand-coloured lithographs

Price

€ 450,00

A lovely colour plate book with views of historic sites along the line Paris-Versailles, built in the 1840's.

 

The plates include views of Courbevoie, Suresnes, St. Cloud, Sèvres, Ville d'Avray, and Versailles (12 views), lithographed by De Becquet frères after Provost. Lebrasseur also published a similar collection with views along the line Paris-Chartres.

Title

Le Touriste en chemin de fer. Ligne de Paris a Versailles. Trains de Plaisir.

Paris, R. Lebrasseur, [ca. 1850].

Physical Description

Oblong (15 x 23 cm). Title-page, and 22 hand-coloured lithographed plates (including a frontispiece and a map).

 

Publisher's blind-stamped green cloth with title ("Voyage de Paris a Versaille") in gilt on front board. In very good condition, with the plates foxed and the binding gently rubbed.

References

Not in SPL Collection.

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