THE MOST POPULAR TRAVEL GUIDE TO PARIS

BRICE, GERMAIN.

Nouvelle description de la ville de Paris et de tout ce qu’elle contient de plus remarquable. 4 vols.

Paris, Gandouin et Fournier, 1725.

8vo. Uniformly bound in four contemporary full calf bindings with five raised bands and richly gilt spines. Edges of boards gilt. Small paper-label pasted on to upper compartments on spines. All edges coloured in red. A few stains and scratches to boards and spine-ends with wear. With marginal annotation in contemporary hand throughout. (8), 523 pp. + 10 folded plates; (2), 545 pp. + 11 plates. (2), 442, (2) pp. + 9 plates; (2), 407, (5) pp. + 10 plates. 

Eighth revised edition of Brice’s travel guide to Paris. Uncountable travel guides to Paris were published in the period but the present work excelled in its beautiful plates and topographical accuracy. “Pour la première fois, un ouvrage se propose de décrire au voyageur étranger et à l'amateur la ville de Paris dans sa réalité topographique” ("For the first time, a work sets out to describe to the foreign traveler and the enthusiast the city of Paris in its topographical reality." (Jean-Pierre Babelon).

Order-nr.: 60991