Collection de vues de Paris prises au daguerréotype. Gravures en taille douce sur acier par Chamouin (Views of Paris) [ca. 1850].

[Paris ca. 1850]. 37x27.5 cm, 25 numbered intaglios, publisher's cloth binding with contemporary leather spine and metal corners. Good condition(three unnumbered intaglios missing, which should come before those with numbers, intaglio No. 18 sewn after No. 19, protective tissue guards missing, rust stains).

Nineteenth-century album of views of Paris, depicting Place de la Concorde, Palais de la Chambre, Hôtel deville (City Hall), Fontaine de la Place Louvoi ,Tuileries Palace (now defunct), Palais-Royal ,Palace of Versailles, Louvre, Notre-Dame Cathedral and other representative places. Steel engravings based on daguerreotypes were made by Chamouin - Jean Baptiste Marie or Claude Hilaire Alphonse (there were two engravers of this name in France during this period).