Boeknummer: 54478
P. A. Desrosiers, Moulins, 1850 (on spine 1849)
Large 4to (31x24 cm). Halfcloth, title label (sl. dam.) on spine; covers grey cardboard (hinges teared; top and foot spine dam.). 218 pp. printed in 2 columns, with woodengraved illustrations and 9(of 11) lithographed plates: frontispiece (coloured lithograph after Emile Sagot), 1 large, folding, portrait (60x46 cm) of Charles de Bourbon, in vivid colours ('fragment d'un vitrail de la cathédrale de Moulins'), and 7 (of 9) other lithographs, partly in colours, by Champagnat, publ. by Desrosiers (6 plates and 1 fullpage between text). - The last 2 plates "Tapisserie de Dijon" and "Habitation d'un Fakir" are not present. - Mainly about the "Bourbonnais": Nohant-Vicq (peintures murales), Jaligny (notice historique), Neuville (cimétière romain), Mauzac (l'Église, with schematic plate in text) and "Excursions d'Artistes" p.84-94 by A. Dauvergne: Château de Cindré with 2 plates (château & peintures à fresques), Grand-Chambord, Chavroche, Trézel, etc. - Inner state nice and clean. Important for i.a. the contribution about the Vallée de la Besbre and very rare.
