Croze-Magnan, and Laurent. Le musée français [and] Le musée royal. 1803-18. 2 works in 6 volumes, uniformly bound

CROZE-MAGNAN, SIMON CÉLESTIN ̶ PIERRE LOUIS HENRI LAURENT

Two works in six volumes, comprising:

Croze-Magnan, Simon-Célestin. Le Musée français, recueil complet des tableaux, statues et bas-reliefs, qui composent la collection nationale. Paris: Imprimerie de L.E. Hernan [vol. IV: Paris, Impr. de Mame frères], 1803-1809. LIMITED TO 600 COPIES, 4 volumes, half-titles, engraved title vignettes, 344 engraved plates by P. Laurent and others, and vignettes in the text, marginal tear not affecting image on one plate, some spotting, occasional browning, binding slightly scuffed, [Cohen-de Ricci 743-45]

Laurent, Pierre Louis Henri. Le Musée Royal... ou recueil de gravures d'après les plus beaux tableaux, statues et bas-reliefs de la Collection Royale. Paris: P. Didot, 1816-1818. 2 volumes, half-titles, engraved title vignettes, 161 engraved plates, and vignettes in the text, spotting, large marginal stain on final plate of volume 2, [Cohen-de Ricci 745n],

Together: 6 volumes, folio (565 x 396mm.), uniformly bound in contemporary russia with gilt ruled and palmette borders, gilt spines with meander pattern at head and foot, gilt edges, sold not subject to return

AN IMPRESSIVE COLLECTION OF PLATES ILLUSTRATING THE TREASURES OF NAPOLEONIC FRANCE.