Notice sur l'incendie de la cathédrale de Rouen, occasionné par la foudre, le 15 septembre 1822, et sur l'histoire monumentale de cette église [...].

8vo: [2]-viii-180 pp.; 6 pl. (foxing, some sm. stains and one corner restored on title-page, some pencil notes).

Modern garnet cloth: flat spine, red title label. Untrimmed copy.

First edition, ill. (complete) with 6 pl. (2 fold.), by the author (1777-1837), a French painter, draftsman, engraver and writer, his daughter and pupil Espérance (1805-1864), painter and printmaker, and Lescanne père. 2 woodcuts by Brévière after the author: title vignette showing the cathedral and 1 full-p. vignette at the end of the text. List of subscribers. Copy enriched with documents: 5 postcards, 2 press excerpts, 6 pp. of notes (the first ones dated 1833 and incl. 1 full-page ink drawing). Joined: 1 postcard and prospectus from the Société française d'archéologie (1926).
Prov. Adrien Delpy, architect, Brussels (stamp).
Joined, 3 works: 1. Le duc de Berry, ou Vertus et belles actions d'un Bourbon. Paris, P. Descabane, 1822. 4to: [1] f. (title), 12 pl. (sl. margin. foxing). Contemp. half brown sheepskin (rubbed with some sm. lacks). 12 nice aquatints by Charon, Hocquart jeune, Jazet, and Paul, after drawings by Chasselat, Defenne, Fragonard, Lordon, Martinet, and Pécheux, including 1 portrait by Jazet, after Colin, and 1 view showing the Duke directing firemen in action.-- 2. Boutray, Raoul - L'incendie du palais de Paris en 1618 [...]. Paris, L. Willem, 1879. 16mo: 100-[8] pp. (foxing). Sewned, publisher's printed paper cover. 1st reprint of this account, with introduction and notes by Hippolyte Bonnardot, published in the "Collection de documents rares et inédits relatifs à l'histoire de Paris". Issued in 350 copies, No. 136/325 on laid paper.-- 3. Petit, Maxime - Les grands incendies. Paris, Hachette et Cie, 1882. 16mo: [4]-302-[2] pp.; front. (some foxing). Publisher's decorated blue cloth, red edges. 1st ed., ill. with 34 woodcuts (front. incl.) by Auguste-Victor Deroy. From the coll. "Bibliothèque des merveilles". Prov. Louis-François de Marval (armorial bookpl. and stamp). - Oscar Legler, Couvet en Suisse (stamp). (4 vol.)