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Paris. Beautiful color plate book

Paris. Beautiful color plate book. Paris moderne et ses environs. With 25 beautifully hand colored lithographed plates. Maison Martinet, Paris, no year (ca. 1860). Imp. Godard.
Oblong folio in a red cloth binding in gilt lettered. The binding has wear to extemities, is slightly rubbed recto and has large a crack in rear hinge, so rear board is loose. With 25 beautifully hand colored lithographs of monuments and street life around famous buildings in Paris (including title). Most of the plates are drawn and lithographed by Rivière. The tissue guarded plates are in excellent condition, fresh and strong in colors.
Title page, Panorama des Tuilerie et du Louvre, Place de la Concorde, Le Louvre et Les Tuileries, Arc de Triomphe de l'Etoile, Grand Hotel, Salle à Manger du Grand Hotel, La Rue de Rivoli, Les Tuilerie, La Madeleine, Colone de la Place Vendome, Jardin du Palais Royale, Notre Dame, Hotel de Ville, Tour St. Jacque, Palais de Justice et S:te. Chapelle, La Bourse, Palais du Luxembourg, Le Panthéon, Place de la Bastille, Hotel des Invalides, Lacs du Bois de Boulogne, La Grande Cascade de Lonchamps, Vue Générale de la Cascade du grand Jet et du Chateau, Panorama du Chateau et du Parc.