Melanges d'Archeologie. D'Histoire et de Litterature, rediges ou recueillis par les auteurs de la monographie de la Cathedrale de Bourges (Volume I)

Paris: Chez Mme Ve Poussielgue-Rusand, 1847-1849. Hardcover. Three-quarters brown and white boards with red leather spine; gilt letters on spine; marbled flyleaves, 262 pp. of text, with 45 BW plates and chromolithographs. OVERSIZE (in tissue paper). G- (Front hinge has separated from spine; boards have heavy wear; spine covering is loose and broken though all parts are present; pages have light foxing; plates are generally quite clean and colors are vibrant.). Item #144147

Text is in French. Volume I of a four-volume set compiled by two 19th-century French Jesuit priests: author Charles Cahier (1807-1882) and draftsman Arthur Martin (1801-1856). Covers some of the relics, decorations, and designs from chapels dating from the Carolingian and Romanesque eras. With especially vivd chromolithographs.

Price: $175.00

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