PETIT, Victor. CALLIAT. GROMORT. - Lot 105

PETIT, Victor. CALLIAT. GROMORT. [ARCHITECTURE] SET of 3 titles in 4 volumes. -PETIT, Victor. Small Architectural Models. Dedicated to public schools. A collection of simple and varied examples of buildings cited in France, Switzerland, Germany, && with plans, sections, and elevations. Paris, Monrocq, (ca. 1850–1880) Italian folio format. In the publisher’s black half-cloth slipcase, with illustrated covers (slipcase heavily rubbed, with wear and some foxing, edges discolored). Complete set of 50 lithographic plates in black. Very rare. Only 2 copies in the CCFr (Auxerre and Armes). -CALLIAT. A Comparison of Parisian Houses Built from 1830 to the Present. Published by Bance, 1851. Folio-sized album. Contemporary aubergine-colored morocco-bound half-leather (rubbed, foxing mainly on the first and last sections; otherwise lighter and more peripheral). Over a hundred line engravings (bound out of order). First edition. -GROMORT. Romanesque ARCHITECTURE. I. Provence and Languedoc. II. Auvergne, Périgord, Guyenne, Saintonge, and Angoumois. Paris, Vincent Fréal et Cie, 1929. 2 folio-sized portfolios with the publisher’s laces, printed covers. Red half-percaline binding. Numerous plates with black-and-white photographic reproductions. Some soiling on the covers, but otherwise good copies.