LEPER (Augustus). Nantes in nineteen hundred. Preface by Roger Marx. Nantes: Émile Grimaud et fils, [1900]. - In-4, 266 x 180: (6 ff.), 133 pp., (2 ff.), 4 plates, printed and embossed cover. Dark burgundy morocco, flats decorated with a double frame, one composed of a gilded fillet, the second composed of a straight and curved scroll of Havana morocco decorated with 16 golden thistles and blue and beige morocco, spine ribbed decorated in the same spirit, Dark burgundy morocco frame inside, decorated with a mosaic-like decoration reminiscent of the plates, brown brocaded silk lining and endpapers, double endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserved, case (E. Carayon). Original edition printed in only 220 copies on Arches wove paper, illustrated with 59 figures drawn, engraved and printed by Auguste Lepère, including an etching enhanced with bistre on double page, 4 etchings out of text, and 54 figures on wood in the text. One of the 200 copies put on the market. Very nice copy in mosaic binding from Carayon, enriched with the specimen of the publication printed at 350 copies, illustrated with two woodcuts . Back skillfully tinted.