La Fleur des antiquitez de la noble et triomphante ville et cité de Paris.
Paris, Léon Willem, 1874.
12mo (185x112 mm), xxi-(1 bl.)-(2)-167-(1) pages. binding : Modern hardcover. Original printed wrappers have been bound in. Foxings.
Reprint with an erudite preface by Bibliophile Jacob (Paul Lacroix) of this 1532 booklet by Gilles Corrozet. La Fleur des Antiquités is the first work written on the annals of Paris and its citizens. It is particularly insightful on the topography of Parisian streets at the time. One of 22 copies on China paper, ours is number 20.