Le Livre d'Or des Familles ou La Terre-Sainte Illustrée
Paris: Librairie Ethnographique, [1847]. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 232pp. Original 3/4 red morocco over cloth, with gold lettering and tooling on spine. All edges gilt. Moire endpapers. Vignette on title. Decorative initials. Remarkable pictorial work on Palestine and the Holy Land, magnificently illustrated with 59 tinted full-page lithographic plates (one duplicate) after David Roberts and one folding map at rear. Rubbing along edges of binding, with some abrasion to leather. Discoloration on covers. Free front endpaper and half-title page partly detached. Lacks second color title page. Text in French. Binding in overall fair to g-, interior in good+ to very good condition. f to vg. Item #21146
Price: $350.00