Monographie de l'Hotel-de-Ville de Lyon, Restauré sous l'Administration de Mm. Vaisse et Chevreau, Senateurs...accompangée d'un texte Historique et Déscriptif

75 pp. text on the newly restored 17th-century city hall, extensive notes, documents, numerous text illustrations, 62 plates (14 of them fine chromolithographs by Lemercier). Some foxing throughout. Large folio. 3/4 gilt-tooled leather and boards, raised spine. Paris (A. Morel) 1867. Antoine Desjardins, who constructed the city markets and many other buildings in Lyon, was city architect from 1854 to 1870. A finely bound copy of an impressive and increasingly scarce book.