BOURGOIN, Jules. - Lot 97

BOURGOIN, Jules. Les Arts arabes. Architecture. Carpentry - Bronzes - Ceilings - Coverings - Marbles - Pavements - Stained glass - etc. Avec une table descriptive et explicative et le trait général de l'art arabe. Paris, Vve A. Morel et Cie, 1873. In-folio, leaves in publisher's laced cardboard folder with lithographed title plate (spine tired, split over a few cm at foot, slight light wetness to text leaves, soiling and rubbing to cardboard folder, soiling to first two leaves with small lateral handling defects). Rare. First edition. False title, title lithographed in black and red, (4) pp. preface by Viollet-le-Duc, VIII pp. Introduction, 28 pp. text, 4 pp. designation and explanation of plates, 3 pp. Table of plates then 92 plates mostly lithographed by Lemercier, Walter, Lefevre... numbered, of which 51 chromolithographed and some engraved. A good copy with fresh leaves. [Architectureet arts décoratifs islamiques].