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EIFFEL TOWER
La Tour de trois cents mètres. Paris: Société des imprimeries Lemercier, 1900. 2 vols., 2° (539 x 379 mm). Atlas with 13 photogravures, 53 double-page lithographed plates, most in colour, and one coloured map of the environs of Paris, text with engraved portrait frontispiece of Eiffel and numerous in-text illustrations. (Some pale dampstaining to frontispiece and first few leaves in vol. 1). Original dark green half morocco (some small repairs to the spine end, minor rubbing). Provenance: Eiffel's inscription in ink on the half-title (lightly faded).
LIMITED EDITION, ONE OF 500 SETS OF THE FIRST EDITION of one of the earliest complete monograph on a modern building. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY EIFFEL: 'Hommage de G. Eiffel.' It has served as the standard for all subsequent studies on the architecture of 19th-century metal structures. In 1900, the Eiffel Tower was still the tallest structure in the world. RARE: this superb work, published at the author's expense, was never issued commercially but given by Eiffel to public libraries, universities, French and foreign scientific societies, and important contemporaries. One of 500 sets, this one with copy number 109 of volume 1 and copy 184 of volume 2. En français dans le texte 326. (2)
La Tour de trois cents mètres. Paris: Société des imprimeries Lemercier, 1900. 2 vols., 2° (539 x 379 mm). Atlas with 13 photogravures, 53 double-page lithographed plates, most in colour, and one coloured map of the environs of Paris, text with engraved portrait frontispiece of Eiffel and numerous in-text illustrations. (Some pale dampstaining to frontispiece and first few leaves in vol. 1). Original dark green half morocco (some small repairs to the spine end, minor rubbing). Provenance: Eiffel's inscription in ink on the half-title (lightly faded).
LIMITED EDITION, ONE OF 500 SETS OF THE FIRST EDITION of one of the earliest complete monograph on a modern building. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY EIFFEL: 'Hommage de G. Eiffel.' It has served as the standard for all subsequent studies on the architecture of 19th-century metal structures. In 1900, the Eiffel Tower was still the tallest structure in the world. RARE: this superb work, published at the author's expense, was never issued commercially but given by Eiffel to public libraries, universities, French and foreign scientific societies, and important contemporaries. One of 500 sets, this one with copy number 109 of volume 1 and copy 184 of volume 2. En français dans le texte 326. (2)
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