[MORLENT (J.)]. Le Havre and its district. Part 1. Le Havre, - Lot 532

[MORLENT (J.)]. Le Havre and its district. Part 1. Le Havre, J. Morlent, 1841. 9 parts bound in 1 vol. in-4, half red basane, smooth spine decorated with gilt and cold-stamped fillets, gilt title (period binding). The illustration consists of 6 frontispieces, including a title-frontispiece bearing the date 1837 and indicating as author "a society of artists and men of letters under the direction of Mr. J. Morlent", 34 hors-texte plates including a fold-out panorama of Le Havre, 1 fold-out plan and 1 fold-out map. The work comprises 9 parts, each with its own pagination: Le Havre (LVI-142 pp.), canton d'Ingouville (56 pp., p. 7-8 misplaced at beginning), canton of Montivilliers including Harfleur (56 pp.), canton of Criquetot including Étretat (48 pp.), canton of Fécamp (64 pp.), canton Goderville (16 pp.), canton of Bolbec (8 pp.), canton of Saint-Romain de Colbosc including Tancarville (39 pp., p. 9-10 misplaced after p. 16), canton of Lillebonne (32 pp.). Bound at the end: Dictionnaire géographique, historique, industriel, statistique et archéologique de l'arrondissement du Havre (19 pp.) The publisher had intended to give a description of all of Normandy under the title "Normandie pittoresque" - found on the false-title of the present copy - but this project was not realized. Scattered foxing. Ex-libris JM on upper flyleaf. (Frère, II, 329.)