COINDRE, Gaston and ABRAHAM, T. La Franche-Comté. Besançon a - Lot 244

COINDRE, Gaston and ABRAHAM, T. La Franche-Comté. Besançon and the Doubs Valley. XXV etchings by Messrs. T. Abraham and G. Coindre. Text by MM Xavier Marmier, Francis Wey, E. Grenier, Abbé Besson, Vte Chifflet and A. Castan. Besançon, Charles Marion, 1874. Large in-4°, title vignette and 25 captioned etchings, leaves. Laced folder, brown half-chagrined slipcase, 5-rib spine decorated with a gilt iron with the Besançon coat of arms, gilt title, black laces. Issued in an edition of 400 copies, this one 337 of 350 on Hollande. Enriched with a second, different engraving of the "Glacière de la Grâce-Dieu". The upper cover of the publisher's hardback dust jacket has been preserved; there is some foxing and minor damage to the covers, and the spine of the slipcase is unstained. A fine set, however.