LAVALLÉE (Théophile) - Histoire de Paris. Paris, Hetzel, Bla - Lot 561

LAVALLÉE (Théophile) - Histoire de Paris. Paris, Hetzel, Blanchard, Martinon, 1852; in-4, 472 pp. bound in black half-chagrin with corners, spine with 4 nerves, edges speckled. Théophile-Sébastien Lavallée (October 13, 1804, in Paris-1866) was a 19th-century French historian and geographer. He entered Saint-Cyr in 1826 as a mathematics tutor, where he successively became a history tutor and a professor of geography and statistics applied to military art. It was Pierre-Jules Hetzel, in association with Paulin, who published his Histoire des Français in 1838. He continued to collaborate with Hetzel, notably on Le Diable à Paris, writing a History and Geography of Paris as a foreword to each volume, as well as with Jules Verne. Illustrated with 207 views, by Champin. Very good condition. Expert : M. Philippe HENRY