Live auction - Lot 958
[Periodical - Architecture]
La maison de campagne. Journal illustré des chateaux, des villas, des petites et grandes propriétés rurales.
Paris, s.n., 1876-1882
Hammer price: €
200
€ 100 / 150
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Lot description
167 issues in 7 vol., 8vo: 74 (of 76) pl. (vol. 2: issue 8 missing, vol. 4: 2 pl. missing, vol. 5: 1 pl. completely torn, some spotting and staining throughout).
Contemp. half sheep, gilt spines (spines rubbed, most corners bumped).
7 years, 24 issues each year, of this 19th-c. magazine on architecture and horticulture, started in 1860, making these the 17th - 23rd ed. Illustrated with many woodcuts in-text and 74 hand-coloured lithographed pl., of which 9 folding, signed by e.g. Victor Petit and E. Forestier.
Ref. BnF.