HUGO (Abel): France pittoresque, ou description topographiqu - Lot 165

HUGO (Abel): France pittoresque, ou description topographique et statistique des départements et colonies de la France. Delloye, 1835. 3 vols. in-4 modern tan half-chagrin, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets. First edition and first printing of 471 steel-engraved plates, including 4 fold-outs. For each department and colony, this work describes history, antiquities, topography, meteorology, natural history, political and administrative division, general and picturesque description of the country, specific description of towns, villages, communes and castles, mores, customs and costumes, etc. The whole is completed by a statistics section. The whole is completed by a general statistic of France, in political, military, judicial, financial, moral, medical, agricultural, industrial and commercial terms. Scattered brown spots, but a good, fairly fresh copy.