Galignani's new Paris guide, or, Stranger's companion through the French metropolis : containing a detailed and accurate description of all the public edifices, gardents etc. : an account of the political, scientific, commercial, religious, and moral institutions of the capital : with an historical sketch of Paris, and all necessary and useful directions to the traveller previous to his setting out, upon his landing in france, and upon his arrival and during his residence at Paris : and an account of the different roads from the coast to the capital : to which is added an historical and picturesque description of the environs, with many interesting particulars not to be found in any other work of the kind : to which is prefixed a plan for viewing Paris in a week : a comparative scale of weights and measures, and value of coins : a directory of Parisian tradesmen, etc. : embellished with a map of Paris and twelve engravings.
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| Language: | English |
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Paris :
Published by A. and W. Galignani, no. 18, rue Vivienne; and by G. B. Whittaker, Ave-Maria-Lane, London,
1825.
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| Edition: | Twelfth edition. |
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| Ownership and Custodial History: |
Pencil notes (20th-century?) in English on hotels and other sites of interest in Paris on front paste-down and recto of front free end-paper; modern bookseller's note in pencil on recto of front free end-paper: "lacks map : 25.00"; trom the collection of Anne Tukey Harrison (1938-2021), professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Classical Studies at Michigan State University. |
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MSU: Lacks all plates and final leaf.
MSU: Portion of leaf bearing pages xiii and xiv torn out, slightly affecting text. |
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In publisher's full blue morocco; spine tooled in gilt; upper board and spine lettered in gilt ("Galignani's Paris" and "Paris guide", respectively); all edges marbled. |
| Physical Description: | 6 unnumbered pages, lxxxiv, 839 pages, plates : illustrations, map ; 14 cm |
| Variant Title: |
Stranger's companion through the French metropolis
Galignani's new guide of Paris |
| Format: | Book |
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