LES ALPES FRANÇAISES; Savoie Dauphiné / Haute - Provence / Publié Nous La Direction de Marcel Monmarché / 85 Cartes, 1 Panorama et 22 Plans
Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1920. Maps, Panorama, plans. First edition thus: FRENCH TEXT. Cloth. 16mo (6 1/4" x 4 1/4"), black cloth with gilt titles & blind-stamped rules, embossing & blank rules; illustrated with 85 maps, 1 B&W panorama of Mt. Blanc & assocs., + 22 plans; silk / rayon page-marker; map endpapers; lxxx + 659 pages in French. Weight: 1 lb. 1 oz. Good. Item #9019
Very useful, well illustrated, and SCARCE French imprint of LES ALPES FRANÇAIS: just after the Great War & still theirs, Hooray!
Backstrip reinforced with clear tape; binding holding well though somewhat shaken; corners slightly curled; title and preliminary pages becoming loose; internally unannotated apart from recurrent stamps of "Frank J. Guscetti" of "Chicago, Illinois, October 8, 1938" in red or black--on title page & many on the backs of maps: otherwise clean; a scarce though moderately and uniformly age-toned copy (most toning to page margins) having numerous illustrations in FINE/NF condition, which include 85 partli-colored maps, 1 B&W panorama, plus 22 B&W illustrations.
Price: $70.00