Lot 20
  • 20

Benoist, Phillippe & Jean Jacottet

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 USD
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Description

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Nouvelles Vues de Paris. Paris: Auguste Bry for Gilhaut frères, J. Rigo for F. Sinnett, [ca. 1847]



40 lithographs by J. B. Arnout, J. Jacottet, Bachelier, and Philippe Benoist, hand-colored and heightened with gum arabic, 1 lithographed title with map of the city; some marginal stains from mounting, occasional spotting sometimes entering image. In a modern blue-cloth drop-box.

Provenance

William H. Beck (purchase note in margin of title plate,  dated March 1847, his signature on verso of each plate)

Condition

some marginal stains from mounting, occasional spotting sometimes entering image
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Catalogue Note

A collection of charming views of Paris and Versailles.