Cherbourg Paris Chalons 5-9 Octobre 1896

Paris / St. Petersbourg: Journal Le Temps / Le Nouveau Temps, 1896. French text. Leather bound. 216pp. Quarto [31.5 cm] 3/4 reddish brown leather with decorative paper covered boards, raised bands, and a gilt tooled spine. Top edge gilt. Beautifully decorative endsheets. Very good. The front cover is slightly concave. There is a small chip in the leather at the head of the spine, and there is a tiny loss from the leather at the foot of spine. The edges of the covers are rubbed, and the corners of the covers are gently bumped. The underlying boards are exposed at the corners. Pp. 27-30 are hanging on by a thread. Subjects include Visite A L'Academie Francaise, Visite A L'Hotel De Ville, and La Decoration De Paris.