77 - BOURASSE (ABBÉ J.-J.). *La Touraine: History and Monuments*. Tours: Mame, 1855. Folio, red morocco leather, large decorative design of interlaced, cold-embossed mosaic bands in black morocco leather, in the style of certain bindings produced for Grolier; spine decorated in the same style, lined with red morocco leather framed by a wide border of Lavallière on which various coats of arms are inlaid, brocaded silk endpapers, double margins, gilt edges on endpapers, original cover, half-maroq slipcase with border (Marius Michel).

BOURASSE (ABBÉ J.-J.). *La Touraine: History and Monuments*. Tours: Mame, 1855. Folio, red morocco leather, large decorative design of interlaced, cold-embossed mosaic bands in black morocco leather, in the style of certain bindings produced for Grolier; spine decorated in the same style, lined with red morocco leather framed by a wide border of Lavallière on which various coats of arms are inlaid, brocaded silk endpapers, double margins, gilt edges on endpapers, original cover, half-maroq slipcase with border (Marius Michel). FIRST EDITION. 15 steel engravings, including a map and 4 separate chromolithographs, and numerous woodcuts in the text, after Karl Girardet and Louis Français—described by Carteret as “remarkable.” ONE OF ONLY THREE COPIES PRINTED ON CHINESE PAPER, without any foxing, which is exceptional. SUPERB MOSAIC BINDING BY MARIUS MICHEL in the 16th-century style. From the A. Vautier library (ex-libris, sale May 11, 1977, cat. no. 47).