Antiques of Paris - Lot 524

Lot 524
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Antiques of Paris - Lot 524
Antiques of Paris CORROZET (Gilles) The Antiquities, stories and singularities of Paris, capital city of the kingdom of France. Paris, Corrozet, 1550. In-8 : 16f., 200f., 1f. (lacks the last sheet of correction). Leaves 80 and 81 inverted, some pagination errors, leaves 195 and 196 almost absent (torn at 3/4). Small paper losses at the corners in the margins of some leaves, light rings on some leaves (mostly in the outer margins). Copy slightly short of margins. Old honey vellum, old traces of binding, small lack of skin on the second cover. A rare and valuable first edition, republished several times under different titles and which will remain the reference on the subject for several generations of historians. Les antiquitez de Paris is the first true history book on the city, the result of the author's constant research on the history of the city's monuments; many chapters are new compared to the 1532 edition by the same author (La fleur des antiquitez de Paris), notably on buildings erected since that date, such as the Hôtel de Ville. In fine, catalog of the streets of Paris, prisons, hotels, bridges... (It is in this part of 14f. that 2 leaves have been torn, as well as the last correction leaf).
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