[ILLUSTRATED BOOKS] [FRENCH] [FOLIO] HISTOIRE DES CROISADES [2 VOLUMES]

Paris: Furne, Jouvet et Cie, 1877. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Two folio volumes (17 1/4" x 13 1/4); in the publisher's red cloth bindings, gorgeously stamped in black and gilt; [iv], [1], 2-422 pages, followed by Tables des Gravures (the final leaf of which has a crease); [iv], [1], 2-373 pages, followed by Tables des Gravures; each volume with 50 full page plates by Dore, all protected with tissue guards; the first tissue guard in Volume I has minor corner loss; the plates are almost all clean of foxing and superb.~~Volume I has some minor rippling to the bottom edge of the last quarter or so of the textblock, no affecting the text or the plates.~~Volume I has been rebacked in red japanese tisues with the original spine laid down, and Volume II has had small patches to the top and bottom of the front gutter.~~Altogether a magnificent set in two volumes.~~~. Very Good binding.