Calligraphic manuscript in sepia ink on paper within 3 line borders. Confirmation of noble status (Carta Executoria) in favour of Don Antonio de las Cagigas Castillo y Santelices, Natural y originario de esa dicha villa de Escalante, y residente en la ciudad de Buenos Ayres en los nuestros Reynos de Indias: y su Procurador en su nombre, se ócurrió a la nuestra corte y chancillería que està, y reside en la ciudad de Valladolid Valladolid. I HAVE NOT FOUND ANY RECORD OF THESE FIVE VOLUMES EVER HAVING BEEN OFFERED FOR SALE TOGETHER. COMPLETE SETS ARE OF THE GREATEST RARITY. A few little, faint stains here and there, but generally in EXCELLENT CONDITION, with the colors in the lithographs extremely fresh and luminous. The final volume is in the original cloth-backed board portfolio. THE FIRST FOUR VOLUMES ARE BEAUTIFULLY BOUND IN QUARTER VELLUM AND MARBLED BOARDS. Habitations cosmopolites: forty gorgeous plates of astonishingly elegant country houses all over the world, printed in color and extensively retouched by hand. Petites constructions pittoresques: half-title, title, introduction (1 p), description of plates (3 pp) plus fifty gorgeous plates, printed in color and retouched by hand. Parcs et jardins: half-title, title, introduction (2 pp), description of plates (2 pp) plus fifty gorgeous plates, printed in color and retouched by hand. THESE FIFTY PLATES DO NOT APPEAR IN ANY RECORDED COPY OF THE WORK, AND ARE OBVIOUSLY EXTREMELY RARE. This work normally includes only 50 plates by Victor Petit, but the set I offer includes 50 more, numbered from 51 to 100, by Cheneveau after Leblan, obviously intended as a continuation. Maisons de campagne: half-title and title plus one hundred gorgeous plates, all printed in color and extensively retouched by hand. Habitations champêtres: Title-page (with large lithographed image of a country house) plus one hundred gorgeous lithographs by Victor Petit, all printed in color and extensively retouched by hand, each depicting a a country house or related structure, such as a gazebo, belvedere, pavillion, etc. A COMPLETE SET, IN EXCELLENT CONDITION, WITH 340 BEAUTIFULLY COLORED LARGE FOLIO LITHOGRAPHS (50 of which are entirely unrecorded), OF VICTOR PETIT'S FIVE NINETEENTH-CENTURY WORKS ON ELEGANT COUNTRY LIVING, ONE OF THE GREAT MASTERWORKS OF BOTH CIVIL ARCHITECTURE AND COLOR LITHOGRAPHY.
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