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The first, in the original edition, offers a visit to the Palace and the gardens of Versailles in 3 days, starting from Paris, avenue de Versailles. This is a tourist guide by Jean Vaysse de Villiers (1767-1834) - relay post inspector, geographer and historian. who published with Potey a series of guides "Descriptive itinerary, or Road description" published from 1813 to 1835, the volumes before 1815 were titled "Road and geographical description of the French Empire".
The second is the new edition of a guide to the château and gardens of the Tuileries, illustrated with 4 folding plates. Work first published under the title "Promenade savante des Tuileries." attributed to Marie-Nicolas-Silvestre Guillon (1749-1847),
1. Descriptive itinerary or Road, geographical, historical and picturesque description of France and Italy: roads from Paris to Versailles, city, castle and park of Versailles / by Vaysse de Villiers,.. Potey, Paris and 1822 vol. in-8 of 199 pp (Missing a plan?)
2.
Promenade des Tuileries, or Historical and critical notice of the monuments of the Tuileries garden: in which are noted the errors made in the preceding descriptions; followed by a notice on the Louvre and other monumens ... New edition, with prints and specimen of the writings of Henri IV and of H.R.H. Monsignor the Duke of Berry ([Marie-Nicolas-Silvestre Guillon ] C. Gail nephew: Delalain: Treuttel and Wurtz: Dufart, Paris and 1821. Vol. in-8 VII-[1 bl.]-132 p., plates
Contemporary binding in half sheepskin, decorated smooth spine.
Binding as is, solid, past leather, leveled caps, accident with losses to the head cap. Interior with foxing mainly on the first and last leaves of the first text.
Subject: Vaysse de Villiers & Silvestre Guillon Itinerary Routes from Paris to Versailles. City, Palace and Park of Versailles + Promenade des Tus 67459821
