Alphand, Jean-Charles Adolphe | Les promenades de Paris. Paris, 1867-1873, showing Parisian gardens and their modernisation

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Lot 2 | Alphand, Jean-Charles Adolphe | Les promenades de Paris. Paris, 1867-1873, showing Parisian gardens and their modernisation
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Alphand, Jean-Charles Adolphe

Les promenades de Paris. Paris: J. Rothschild, 1867-1873

2 volumes, folio, (625 x 450mm.),

460 wood engravings in the text, PLATE VOLUME WITH 127 PLATES: a copper-engraved title page on China paper, three double-page steel-engraved plans (of Paris, the Bois de Boulogne, and the Bois de Vincennes), 74 steel-engraved plates of plans and designs, 27 views engraved on wood and printed on China paper, and 22 beautiful chromolithographs of ornamental plants used in the gardens (not 23 as stated in the list of plates, one of those so designated being a steel engraving), PUBLISHER’S RED MOROCCO, ELABORATELY GILT AND ONLAID, covers with border formed by multiple gilt rules connected to scrolling cornerpieces, large sunken central panel with ornate gilt frame of repeating fleurs-de-lys and arabesques arising from a Greek key roll and featuring scalloped cornerpieces, upper covers with very large centre-piece composed of the arms of the City of Paris onlaid in blue and orange silk and incorporating a silver sailing vessel, gilt titling, spines gilt in compartments continuing the cover motifs, gilt turn-ins and edges

An engineer in the Corps of Bridges and Roads, Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand (1817-1891) participated in the renovation of the city of Paris that took place during the reign of Napoleon III under the direction of the famed Baron Haussmann. Among other projects, he was primarily responsible for the design of the Bois de Boulogne, Bois de Vincennes, Gardens of Champs-Élysées, Luxembourg Gardens, Parc Monceau, Parc Montsouris, Parc des Buttes-Chaumont, Square des Batignolles, and Jardin des Plantes du Mans.

Les promenades de Paris is a fascinating look at the ongoing modernizing development and construction of what many consider the most beautiful city in the world. The present copy was once owned by a former president of France, Jules Grévy (1807-1891)
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