127 - LA MESANGERE. A Collection of the Best-Decorated Parisian Merchants’ Houses (and Interiors). Paris, 51 Rue St. Avoye, n.d. (1806–1820). Oblong quarto, Bradel-style binding in pink paper, gold thread, title on a piece of red morocco leather in the center of the front cover, no number. (Modern binding).

LA MESANGERE. A Collection of the Best-Decorated Parisian Merchants’ Houses (and Interiors). Paris, 51 Rue St. Avoye, n.d. (1806–1820). Oblong quarto, Bradel-style binding in pink paper, gold thread, title on a piece of red morocco leather in the center of the front cover, no number. (Modern binding). A PRECIOUS COLLECTION, complete with all 50 published plates, numbered at the top, engraved and colored in the period, depicting the interiors and exteriors of the most beautiful shops in Paris during the First Empire and the Restoration; it also includes a few interiors of palaces or private residences. These plates, even individually, have become impossible to find! Such a collection is of the utmost rarity. (The copies held by the Cabinet des Estampes and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs are incomplete.) Our proofs have full margins and are from the first print run (bearing the address: “A Paris, rue St. Avoye, No. 51”). There is a small repair in the margin of one plate (41).