Lot n° 123
Estimation :
400 - 500
EUR
Result with fees
Result
: 500EUR
MARLÈS (Jules Lacroix de). - Lot 123
MARLÈS (Jules Lacroix de).
Ancient and modern Paris, or History of France divided into twelve periods applied to the twelve arrondissements of Paris, and justified by the monuments of
this famous city...
Paris: Parents-Desbarres, 1837. - 3 volumes in 1 volume in-4, 260 x 210, and an atlas in-4, 300 x 230 : (1 f.), 500 pp. ; (2 ff.), 531 pp. ; (2 ff.), 552 pp. ; 280 plates. Long-grain blue half-marquin, smooth spine decorated with gilded fillets and castors (
period binding).
Original edition of this ambitious work by the Catholic writer Jules Lacroix de Marlès (17..-1850?), "containing, in addition to preliminary notions on ancient Gaul, the conquest of Julius Caesar, the Roman domination and that of the first Frankish kings; 1st the history of all our kings from Clovis to Louis-Philippe; 2° the particular history of Paris with its successive enlargements, from its first enclosure known under Louis VI, known as Le Gros, to the last one built by Louis XVI; 3° its former division into twenty districts, the plans of each of these districts, and its new division into forty-eight districts or twelve arrondissements; 4° picturesque views, interior, exterior, and often in several aspects, of all its ancient monuments now in existence, of those whose tradition has preserved our memory, and of all those from which it has been enriched since 1789 until 1837 [...]; 5° pictures of customs and practices in each period; 6° the history of all the establishments, institutions, learned, religious, administrative or other bodies [...] that exist or have existed, etc.; 7° the history of the city's history, its history, its history, its history, its history, its history, its history, its history, its history, its history, its history, etc.; 8° the history of the city, its history, its history, etc.; 9° the history of the city, its history, etc.; 10° the history of the city, its history, etc.; 11° the history of the city, its history, etc.; 12°
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