Lot including: - Lot 20

Lot including: - Bretagne - LE MENNANT DES CHESNAIS (Mathurin-Joseph). Historical note on the little Saint-Méen, now a departmental asylum for the insane in Ille-et-Vilaine. Rennes, Leroy, 1864. Paperback, printed cover. Brochure damaged. E.A.S. from the author to Comte de Greffulhe, President of the Conseil général d'Ille-et-Vilaine. Frontispiece, title leaf, 3 facsimiles, 6 engraved plates on tinted background, a double-page plan and 44 pp. - DELPECH (François-Séraphin)]. Iconographie des contemporains depuis 1789 jusqu'à 1820. Paris, Delpech, sd (c. 1820). Large in-folio red half-maroquin, spine with faux nerfs decorated, gilt title (period binding). Some minor rubbing. 76 lithographed portraits based on paintings, sculptures and drawings of the period, each (except 3) accompanied by a facsimile sheet of handwriting. Scattered foxing, some plates browned.