Les ruines de Paris et de ses environs, 1870-1871
Subtitle: cent photographies
By: par A. Liébert ; texte par Alfred d'Aunay.
Contributors: Aunay, Alfred d', 1837-1883.
Publisher: Éditées par la photographie américaine A. Liébert ...; Typographie Lahure ...
Published: 1872
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 50
Subjects: War damage -- France -- Paris -- 1870-1880.; Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871 -- France -- Paris.; Paris (France) -- Buildings, structures, etc.; Paris (France) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Photographs.; Paris (France) -- History -- Siege, 1870-1871.; Paris (France) -- History -- Commune, 1871.
Genres: Photographs.
Notes: "Premier volume."  No more published?
Originally published in 2 vols., Paris, impr. de Lahure, 1871. Cf. BN, under Descudier, Alfred, pseud. Alfred d'Aunay.
Among similar photographic essays of the period showing the destruction of Paris after the Franco-Prussian War and the uprising of the Commune, this is "the only collection published with descriptive text and letterpress captions." Cf. description of 1871 ed. in Lucien Goldschmidt. The truthful lens. New York : Grolier Club, 1980. P. 210, item 105.
Title within double-ruled frame; text printed in double columns inside double-ruled frame.
LC copy in blocked and diced leather binding, all edges gilt.