Le Bois de Boulogne. Illustrations d’Edmond Morin. by [BOIS DE…

Large 8vo (259 × 167 mm), pp. [4], 318, [2]; with 15 plates; scattered foxing throughout; still a good copy in contemporary roan-backed cloth, all edges gilt, spine gilt in compartments, lightly rubbed; inscription, dated 1871, to front flyleaf.

First edition of an illustrated account of the Bois de Boulogne, Paris’s second-largest park, a former royal hunting ground and pleasure garden which was given to the city by Napoleon III in 1852 as before then Paris’s only parks (the Tuileries, Luxembourg Garden, Palais-Royal, and Jardin des Plantes) were all in the centre and there was nothing on the outskirts of the rapidly expanding city.