Le Nouvel Opera de Paris par Charles Garnier, Paris: Ducher et Cie, 1875-81

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LOUIS-EMILE DURANDELLE
Le Nouvel Opera de Paris par Charles Garnier, Paris: Ducher et Cie, 1875-81
7 volumes. Four volumes of photographs containing a total of 115 albumen prints, varying sizes to approximately 11¾ x 15 in. (30 x 38 cm.). Each numbered in the negative, printed sequence numbers, titles and photographer's credit on the mounts, each rebound in leather-backed marbled boards, folio; one volume of engraved plates and chromolithographs showing plans, sections and elevations after drawings by Duchamp, Jasson, Riquois and others, rebound in leather-backed marbled boards, folio; and two volumes of text, original leather-backed marbled boards, 4°. (7)

Literature

See: Szarkowski, Photography Until Now, p. 101.

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Lot Essay

Comprising:
Monographie du Nouvel Opéra de Paris, 1880, Vols. I and II in one volume, Vol. I with engraved frontispiece portrait and 36 engraved plates, numbered 1-40 (5 double-page images each listed as 2 plates and one extra plate, numbered 2 ), title and half-title in red and black, list of plates; Vol. II with 20 engraved plates and 20 chromolithographic plates, numbered 1-60 (each chromolithograph listed as 2 plates), list of plates;
Le Nouvel Opera de Paris, Statues Décoratives Groupes et Bas-Reliefs, 1875, with 35 photographs, title, half-title, list of plates;
Le Nouvel Opera de Paris, Sculptures Ornementale, 1875, with 45 photographs, title, half-title, list of plates;
Le Nouvel Opera de Paris, Bronzes, Candélabres, Lustres, Torchères - Appliques - Lampadaires, 1875, with 15 photographs, title, half-title, list of plates;
Le Nouvel Opera de Paris, Peintures Décoratives, 1875, with 20 photographs, title, half-title, list of plates;
Le Nouvel Opera de Paris, text only, Vol. I, 1878 and Vol. II, 1881

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