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It incorporates "more in this City, Painting, Sculpture & Architecture". The plaques are of the main sites and monuments of Paris.
The author of the volume guides the visitor through the twenty historic districts of the city, mentioning the most important buildings and listing all the major paintings exhibited in the city's churches and public and private art collections.
He also names the architect of many of the later public buildings and aristocratic townhouses -
Antoine-Nicolas Dézallier d'Argenville - Picturesque Journey From Paris - 1770
x + 483 pages -
Fair condition of the binding, work in its period full brown leather, rubbing from use, lack on the upper cover and on a small part of the front cover, loose covers, straight joint cracked but which remains solid, binding nevertheless fragile, Rubbed corners, ornate ribbed spine, red edges, gilt titling -
Good interior condition, light soiling, pretty bands, work adorned with beautiful folding plates (complete with its plates) and a frontispiece, the first pages show the removal of the bookplate. -
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