Duc de Nemours Library - Lot 458

Duc de Nemours Library MOREAU (Adolphe) Itinerary from Pau to Eaux-Bonnes and Eaux-Chaudes. By a tourist. Stay and excursions. 2nd edition revised, corrected and enlarged. Pau, Vignancour, May 1844. In-12: 500pp, 20pp; illustrated with 11 plates hors texte engraved in intaglio, burin and aquatint after LAROCHE and BEAUME, engraved by DAUBIGNY, BUZELOT, MARVY, a fold-out itinerary and a map of postal services in fine. Contemporary black chagrin, smooth spine decorated with long rocaille irons, double series of double gilt fillets framing the boards, gilt fillet on the edges, triple gilt fillet inside, gilt edges. A fine copy. This second edition is uncommonly well illustrated. Each edition has its own illustration and technique: 1841 (5 lithographs by Carpenter); this one in etching; 1863 (woodcuts). Provenance: Printed bookplate from the Duc de Nemours library.