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Images from Paris avant l’Historire, (Paris before history) by Élie Berthet, illustrated by F.Bourdin, with engravings by C. Bellinger, E. Chevallier, E. Dargent, Farlet, A. Léveillé and Puyplat, 1885.

I bought this book in Paris in September 2013 in a small bookshop not far from the Bastille monument, down past the Opera.

The book was first published in 1884 as Romans préhistoriques: le monde inconnu.

Title: Paris Avant l’Histoire

Author: Berthet, Élie

Published by: Jouvet et Co.

City: Paris

Date: 1885

Total items: 7

Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.

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Front Cover

My copy of Paris avant l’Historire is bound in quarter-leather with marbled boards. [$]

Foliated chapterhead with dragons

This fleuron or chapterhead is at the start of part III of the novel. It has four dragon’s heads with barbed tongues in a symmetrical pattern, surrounded by leaves perhaps like clover. [more...] [$]

Pied Léger

An illustration of prehistoric Paris; a man sits on the edge of a roughly-made wooden pier, presumably over [more...] [$]

Holly-Branch and Storm Wind

Branche-de-Houx et Vent d’Orage.

Storm Wind and Holly Branch seem to be the names of the man and woman in the picture, respectively. The cresecent-shaped object depicts a terracotta object [more...] [$]

The Archdruid

The Archdruid, or chief druid, is depicted in this engraving standing near a stone monolith and holding herbs and a curved knife for harvesting plants. He is bearded and has perhaps a wreath of oak leaves on [...] [more...] [$]

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