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GAVARD, Charles Galeries historiques de Versailles [...]. [- Supplément [...]]. Paris Ch. Gavard 1838-1849 19 vol. gr. in-f° (qqs rouss. sans gravités, passim, one page of free text in last volume). Contemporary half-chagrin with corners (blue for the first 13 vols., violet for the 6 suppl. vols.), gilt ribbed spines, gilt t. (traces of rubbing and epidermis, a few jaws partly split, spines slightly faded). Preserved in a cabinet specially designed for this monumental work. Comprising 1,752 plates, the "Galeries historiques de Versailles" was published by subscription in 460 issues, the first of which was announced on May 1, 1837. A copy of the deluxe edition. The plates engraved on steel using the pantograph and diagraph, and finished in etching and burin by artists of the period. The text leaves and titles are adorned with numerous figures, banderols and culs-de-lampe. The work is divided into 11 series depicting the history of France from its origins to Louis-Philippe, each divided into sections. Volume I is devoted to plans and views (plans of Versailles, châteaux and royal residences) and to the first paintings; volumes II to VII present paintings by chronological period, volumes VIII to XII portraits of great men, volume XIII statues and busts, as well as the list of subscribers in fine. Six volumes of supplements complete the various series. Prov. Gaston Henri Cogels (bookplate in some volumes).

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GAVARD, Charles Galeries historiques de Versailles [...]. [- Supplément [...]]. Paris Ch. Gavard 1838-1849 19 vol. gr. in-f° (qqs rouss. sans gravités, passim, one page of free text in last volume). Contemporary half-chagrin with corners (blue for the first 13 vols., violet for the 6 suppl. vols.), gilt ribbed spines, gilt t. (traces of rubbing and epidermis, a few jaws partly split, spines slightly faded). Preserved in a cabinet specially designed for this monumental work. Comprising 1,752 plates, the "Galeries historiques de Versailles" was published by subscription in 460 issues, the first of which was announced on May 1, 1837. A copy of the deluxe edition. The plates engraved on steel using the pantograph and diagraph, and finished in etching and burin by artists of the period. The text leaves and titles are adorned with numerous figures, banderols and culs-de-lampe. The work is divided into 11 series depicting the history of France from its origins to Louis-Philippe, each divided into sections. Volume I is devoted to plans and views (plans of Versailles, châteaux and royal residences) and to the first paintings; volumes II to VII present paintings by chronological period, volumes VIII to XII portraits of great men, volume XIII statues and busts, as well as the list of subscribers in fine. Six volumes of supplements complete the various series. Prov. Gaston Henri Cogels (bookplate in some volumes).

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