Lot 56
£225
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 13 July 2022 from 10:00 BST
Grand album représentant les vues et les monuments les plus curieux de Paris et les sites les plus remarquables des environs. Paris, Martinet, c.1860. Oblong folio, original red cloth, tinted lithographic title-page, 24 tinted lithographic plates all with additional hand-colouring, erratically numbered (from 1 to 69), all but one by Charles Rivière, contemporary ownership inscription dated 1864 to front pastedown, wear to binding, a few tissue-guards torn, one plate ('Salle à manger du grand hôtel) with tissue-guard adhesion [cf. Bobins, The Exotic and the Beautiful, 949], together with a 19th-century scrap album, c.1856-7, containing original watercolours and pencil sketches (e.g. 'chien couchant', 'Hornsey church, Middlesex', 'A mill near Vauxhall Bridge, June 16th 1833', 'Highgate church from Hampstead Heath, 1833'), loose and mounted, transcribed poems, and prints (2)
Note: Rare. Library Hub traces two copies, one at Cambridge with 25 plates (probably including the lithographic title-page and therefore matching the present copy), and one at Oxford, with 59 plates and presumably representing another issue; the Bobins copy had 30 plates. The erratic numbering of the plates suggests that Martinet published various issues comprising different selections from the full stock of Riviere's plates.