[Architecture] Garnier, Charles Le Nouvel Opéra de Paris Paris: Ducher et Cie, 1876-1881. In eight volumes. First edition. 8vo (volumes 1 and 2), folio (volumes 3-8). Illustrated with 75 plates, some chromolithographic, plus a frontispiece portrait of Garnier, and 115 mounted photos by Louis-Émile Durandelle. Ex-library with book-plates on paste-downs, perforated and ink stamps to all title-pages and some text; perforated stamps to all plates. Full brown library-style buckram binding (volumes one and two bound in three-quarter brown leather over tan buckram), variously worn, spines starting to detach to volumes one through three, boards detaching from text block of volume three, front board of volume three starting, tape repairs to spines of volumes one and two; plates one, two, and six in volume three partially separated; text and plates variously toned and occasionally foxed, chipped; scattered small closed tears. . Designed by the French architect Charles Garnier (1825-1898), the Paris Opera House was built over a 14 year period from 1861-1874 and has come to be regarded as one of the most remarkable buildings of the Second Empire under Napoleon III and in Paris in general. This rare and complete eight volume set documents the opulent facades, interiors, vestibules, and statuary of the opera house in full page chromolithographs, engravings, and photographs. Sold with all faults.
[Architecture] Garnier, Charles Le Nouvel Opéra de Paris Paris: Ducher et Cie, 1876-1881. In eight volumes. First edition. 8vo (volumes 1 and 2), folio (volumes 3-8). Illustrated with 75 plates, some chromolithographic, plus a frontispiece portrait of Garnier, and 115 mounted photos by Louis-Émile Durandelle. Ex-library with book-plates on paste-downs, perforated and ink stamps to all title-pages and some text; perforated stamps to all plates. Full brown library-style buckram binding (volumes one and two bound in three-quarter brown leather over tan buckram), variously worn, spines starting to detach to volumes one through three, boards detaching from text block of volume three, front board of volume three starting, tape repairs to spines of volumes one and two; plates one, two, and six in volume three partially separated; text and plates variously toned and occasionally foxed, chipped; scattered small closed tears. . Designed by the French architect Charles Garnier (1825-1898), the Paris Opera House was built over a 14 year period from 1861-1874 and has come to be regarded as one of the most remarkable buildings of the Second Empire under Napoleon III and in Paris in general. This rare and complete eight volume set documents the opulent facades, interiors, vestibules, and statuary of the opera house in full page chromolithographs, engravings, and photographs. Sold with all faults.
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