Peter Bichsel   Fine Books

FRANCE. – . Impressions de Voyages. Promenades Pittoresques en France. 6 vols. (all published).

With one engr. plate in each issue. Together more than 200 pp. 12mo. Orig. white boards with gilt ornated front title. Edges gilt. – Paris, Marcilly, n. y. (c. 1840).

Complete collection of all six issues of these tiny series being a companion for travellers in France in the early 19th century. Vol I: Une Fête à Alger; Le château de Roche-Chinard; Niederbroun. – Vol. II: Roc-Amadour; Biarritz; Le Mont Saint-Michel; La cathédrale de Chartres. – Vol. III: L’Abbaye de Jumiège; Le château de Joyeuse-Garde; La tour de Lorient. – Vol. IV: La Grande Chartreuse; Les Roches de Baume; Notre-Dame de Mont-Thabor. – Vol. V: Pèlerinage sous la Neige; Sainte-Anne d’Auray; Solennités populaires de la Bretagne. – Vol. VI: Dieppe; Maison-Laffitte; La Côte de Grâce. – Occasional browning to pages. A fine set in its well-preserved decoratif boards. – Best.-Nr. 25628