France
The Landscape / Architecture / Life Of The People

A very beautiful photographic record of full page photographs (in high quality photo gravure technique)
featuring topography, remarkable sites, culture, arts and people of France.


This precious book was not affordable by too many people at that time.
And there is no other book of that time which comes close to the printing quality of that title.

As photographed by the famous photographer Martin Hurlimann

Photographs titled in English, German, French and Italian.

From the series "Orbis Terrarum" , a series of early photobooks portraying the regions of the world.

from the 1st [and only] edition with only 20,000 copies.

Hardcover

  • 346 pages
  • a map of France
  • 304 rotogravure photos
  • gilt lettering and decoration

In very good exterior and fine interior condition
Minor signs of use and age to boards and spine, otherwise ok.

All pages are complete and tight in the binding.

Approx/Measurements: 12-1/4" x 9-1/2"  ~4.15 lbs.

This item is NO facsimile, or a reprint, it is a real authentic, historical item. German Text.

by Martin Hurlimann
Published by House Wasmuth A. G. Berlin
in 1927










Inhaltsverzeichnis (table of contents) [excerpt]:

Agde, Agos, Aiguille-du-Dru, Aigues-Mortes, Aix-en-Provence, Ajaccio, Alagnon Valley, Alba, Alais, Albi, Amboise, Amiens, Annecy, Angers, Angouleme, Antibes, Arles, Arras, Audierne, Audressein, Autun, Auxerre, Avignon, Bastia, Les Baux, Col de Bavella, Bayeux, Bayonne, Beaucaire, Beaunne, Besancon, Beziers, Blois, Bonifacio, Bordeaux, Le Bourg-de-Batz, Bourges, Breves, Briancon, Brou, Caen, Cahors, Carcassonne, Carnac, Cassis, Cavaillon, Cerons, Cette, La Chaise-Dieu, Chambord, Chantilly, Charleville, Chartres, La Grande Chartreuse, Chaumont, Chenonceau, Clamecy, Clermont-Ferrand, Cluny, Cognac, Collioure, Colmar, Combourg, Compiegne, Conques, Cordes, Dijon, Dinan, Douai, Draguignan, Elne, Embrun, L'Epine, Erbalunga, L'Escarene, Etretat, Evian-les-Bains, Le Faouet, Cirque du Fer-a-Cheval, La Ferte-Bernard, La Ferte-sous-Jouarre, Foix, Fontainebleau, Fontevrault, Fougeres, Pont du Gard, Cirque de Gavarnie, Gedre, Gemar, Gotein, Grenoble, Guerande, Guimiliau, Haroue, Honfleur, Josselin, Laon, Col du Lautaret, Liget, Loches, Locronan, Lorient, Colmar, Lot Valley, Lyons, Marseille, Martigues, Mentone, La Mer-de-Glace, Moissac, Monaco, Le Mont-Dore, Montmajour, Montrejeau, Mont-Saint-Michel, Moret-sur-Loing, Musculdy, Murat, Murols, Nancy, Nantes, Nantua, Nevers, Nice, Nimes, Nizon, Obernai, Olargues, Orange, Orleans, Orthez, Paris, Perigueux, Perpignan, Piana, Plougastel-Daoulas, Poitiers, Le Puy, Quimper, Rambouillet, Pointe du Raz, Rethel, Rheims, Rhone, Rocamadour, La Rochelle, Roquefavour, Rouen, Royat, Saint-Benoit-sur-Loire, Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges, Saint-Cirq-Lapopie, Saint-Emilion, Saint-Gilles, Saint-Guilhem-le-Desert, Ile Saint-Honorat, Saint-Jean-de-Luz, Saint-Malo, Saint-Mihiel, Saint-Pe-d'Ardet, Saint-Valery-en-Caux, Les Saint-Maries-de-la-Mer, Salers, Salon, Roche Sanadoire, Semur, Sisteron, Sixt, Sorde l'Abbaye, Souillac, Strasburg, Sully-sur-Loire, Tarascon, Thonon-les-Bains, Toul, Toulon, Toulouse, Tours, Troyes, Uzerche, Valmagne, Vannes, Vendome, Verdon, Versailles, Vezelay, Villefranche-de-Conflent, Villefranche-de-Rouergue, Villeneuve-les-Avignon, Vitre, Vizille, Zellenberg, Zonza.


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