Habitations champÍtres. Recueil de Maisons, Villas, Chalets, Pavillons, Kiosques, Parcs et Jardins [with] Maisons de Campagne des Environs de Paris. Choix des Plus Remarquables Maisons Bourgeoises Nouvellement Construites aux Alentours de Paris [with] Parcs et Jardins des Environs de Paris. Nouveau recueil de plans de jardins et petits parcs dessinÈs ‡ vol d'oiseau [with] Petites constructions pittoresques pour la dÈcoration des parcs, fermes et basses-cours. Petits maisons de garde, pavillons, kiosques, belvÈdËres, poulaillers, lapiniËres, glaciËres, puits couverts, etc. [with] Habitations Cosmopolites. Recueil de maisons et habitations franÁaises, anglaises, italiennes, belges, suisses, espagnoles, mauresques, allemandes, hollandaises,

Five volumes, complete. 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. ***** 1. Habitations champÍtres: 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. ***** 2. Maisons de campagne: half-title and title plus one hundred gorgeous plates, all printed in color and extensively retouched by hand. 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. THESE FIFTY PLATES DO NOT APPEAR IN ANY RECORDED COPY OF THE WORK, AND ARE OBVIOUSLY EXTREMELY RARE. ***** 3. 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. ***** 4. 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. ***** 5. Habitations cosmopolites: forty gorgeous plates of astonishingly elegant country houses all over the world, printed in color and extensively retouched by hand. ***** Large folio. THE FIRST FOUR VOLUMES ARE BEAUTIFULLY BOUND IN QUARTER VELLUM AND MARBLED BOARDS. The final volume is in the original cloth-backed board portfolio. A few little, faint stains here and there, but generally in EXCELLENT CONDITION, with the colors in the lithographs extremely fresh and luminous. The bindings are BRIGHT AND FINE. COMPLETE SETS ARE OF THE GREATEST RARITY. I HAVE NOT FOUND ANY RECORD OF THESE FIVE VOLUMES EVER HAVING BEEN OFFERED FOR SALE TOGETHER.