GAVARD (Charles) & JANIN (Jules). - Lot 64

GAVARD (Charles) & JANIN (Jules). Galeries historiques de Versailles, dédiées à S. M. La Reine des Français. Et suppléments. Ch. Gavard éditeur, Rue du Marché Saint-Honoré, printed by Eugène Duverger, Paris, 1838. Published by order of King Louis-Philippe. Rare set of 18 large folio volumes (58.5 x 43.5 cm), containing plans and numerous engravings, dedicated, according to the author, to "reproducing in infinite detail this palace where, thanks to King Louis-Philippe the First, all the great deeds and all the Great Men of France have found an asylum and a memory". Complete with its table, in a nineteenth volume. Spine gilt-titled, boards covered in brown grained chagrin. brown chagrin. Wear to corners, foxing, volumes appear to be very complete but not collated, as is.