2 volumes. Several text leaves. Illustrated with 47 chromolithograph plates and 19 lithograph plates (mostly duo-tone) from drawings by Fedor Hoffbauer; 23 map and plan plates with glassine overlays with keys printed in orange (3 maps are printed in two colors) and 1 double-page facsimile plan of Paris; plus numerous wood-engravings throughout text leaves. Text by A. Bonnardot, Jules Cousin, Èdouard Fournier, Paul LaCroix, and others. (Folio) 17½x12¼, period half red cloth and marbled boards, gilt-lettered morocco spine labels, marbled endpapers, hinges reinforced. "Deuxième Édition" [Second Edition].

A comprehensive and spectacular work portraying in chromolithography the evolution over the centuries of the great buildings and landmarks of Paris, including the Bastille, the Louvre, Notre-Dame, and many others. The most interesting feature of this series derives from the pictorial progressions of key sites still familiar in Paris today, as the monumental view spots materialized architecturally. Text in French.