Sale 2496 - Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books, December 13, 2018

307 307 c   (PARIS.) Lancel, Paul. Les Boulevarts de Paris. Panorama of Parisian street scenes in 24 captioned concertina-bound lithographs. Oblong 8vo format, 4 3 / 4 x8 inches, publisher’s gilt and blind stamped cloth, light wear; 182 inches extended, foxing. Paris: Imp. Lemercier, circa 1855 [700/1,000] 308 c   RACINET, AUGUSTE. L’Or- nement Polychrome. Title in red and black, 60 pages with a profusion of wood engraved text illustrations, 100 chromolith- ographed plates, many partly printed in gold and silver, each with corresponding text leaf. Folio, 16x11 1 / 2 inches, loose in publisher’s gilt cloth portfolio boards, spine perished, heavy wear; text foxed, some plates with minor edge wear, but generally bright and clean images; bookplate of Paul Arnauldet (“Nunquam Amicorum”) engraved by Felix Braquemond. Paris: Firmin Didot, circa 1870 [400/600] 309 c   SAMS, WILLIAM, publisher. A Tour Through Paris. 21 finely hand-col- ored aquatint plates on Whatman or Turkey Mill paper. Folio, 14 1 / 4 x10 inches, contempo- rary crushed red morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, light wear to extremities; moderate foxing mostly keeping to text leaves and overlays, generally very nice. London, nd [plates watermarked 1824-1825] [1,000/1,500] 308 309