Librairie Abel Pilon. A. Le Vasseur, gendre et successeure, Paris, ca 1875
2 vols. Oblong large folio (36x45 cm). Green half morocco, spine richly gilt in compartments; covers green cloth with on frontcover gilt symbolic illustration and on backcover a hemisphere (gilt faded). Marbled endpapers. (Lower part of covers of both volumes damaged). Together with 105 (of 106) engraved maps in colour: No 3: folding map "Carte d'ensemble de la France" is missing. All the text-pages seriously browned (small imperf. to margins; waterstain in uppermargin), but the maps are clean and not affected. - Vol. 1: halfti., title, 1 p. 'Avis', 1 p. 'Table', 6 pp. 'Introduction' and each of the 93 departments with 2 pp. explanatory text in 5 columns (excl. for 'Seine'24 pp. and 'Seine et Oise'6 pp. (First leaves with repaired folts). - Vol. 2: Halfti., title, 12 pp. 'Algérie', 40 pp.'Colonies françaises', 12 pp. 'Départements par arr. & cantons', 2 pp. title, 124 pp. 'Célébrités classés par dept. et par ordre alphabétique'