HUGO (Abel). France pittoresque ou Description - Lot 238

HUGO (Abel). France pittoresque ou Description topographique et statistique des départements and colonies of France. Paris, Delloye et Dépôt central de la la Librairie, 1835. 3 vol. in-4° of vi, [2], 320 pp. ; iv, 320 pp. pp. ; 320 pp. Numerous maps and plates, including 4 fold-outs. Raspberry half calf, spine with 4 false nerfs decorated with gilt Greek and small gilt irons and cold irons, gilt title, Speckled edges (contemporary binding). 1st edition. From the libraries of Jean VERGNET-RUIZ (1896-1972), art historian Inspecteur Général des Musées de France, Curator of the Château de Compiègne Château de Compiègne and Jean COURAL (1925-2001), archivist, art historian and curator, art historian and curator, specialist in French tapestry. Appointed to the Château de Versailles, he became General Administrator of the of the Mobilier national and the Manufactures nationales des Gobelins Beauvais and de la Savonnerie from 1963 to 1991, with their engraved bookplates; Handwritten bookplate on title: "Devaux rue Bellon 18, Genlis"; Some foxing, tears to two folding maps with no missing parts, old restoration to one; children's drawings in colored pencil on the endpapers of Volume I, spines sunned.