Ader, Picard, Tajan (Paris)

(22 × 27 cm), [47] pp., illustrations (some in colour). 50 lots. List of estimates loosely inserted. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Includes (item 9) a complete set of twenty large engravings of Giuseppe Castiglione’s views of the gardens of Yuan Ming Yuan (1783-1786); also (item 23, unsold) a coloured copy of Lafréry “Speculum romanae magnificentiae”, in a contemporary vellum binding, decorated “à la Du Seuil” (120 plates, of which 34 with publication of Lafréry, and 64 with publication line of Claude Duchet; the rest unsigned). ¶ Unmarked copy.