Paris BRICE (Germain) Description of the city... Lot 589

Paris BRICE (Germain) Description of the city of Paris, and of all that it contains of more remarkable. Paris, associated booksellers, 1752. 4 volumes in-12 : 2f., XX, 2f., 538pp. (10 plates) / 2f., IV, 520pp. (11 plates) / 3f. 490pp. (9 plates) / 3f. 456pp. 2f. (11 plates). A total of one plan after Nicolas de Fer and 40 folding plates engraved by Scotin Major, Luca, Thevenard, etc. Contemporary marbled fawn calf, spine ribbed and decorated, red title-pieces, black tomaisons, gilt fillet on the edges, marbled edges. A good copy. Ninth and last edition, the most complete. This work was the most popular guide to Paris of the 18th century and remains the most sympathetic and "modern" in its spirit.