[GARNIER (Charles). Le Nouvel opéra de Paris. Paris, Ducher et Cie, 1880. 2 large broadsheet volumes illustrated with a portrait of Garnier by Devaux and 75 black and colored plates engraved on copper, chromolithography or lithography.Volume 1 contains 35 plates including 5 double pages, numbered from 1 to 40 devoted to architectural studies of the Garnier Opera, volume 2 contains 40 plates including 20 chromolithographs, numbered from 1 to 60, dealing with architecture and interior decoration (each chromolithograph or double plate counting as two). In a red percaline publisher's folder. Complete with the 2 volumes of text bound in an in-8 volume, half leather binding with corners (binding rubbed) (Superb copy almost free of interior defects, except for a few tiny traces of wetness or foxing in the margins of some plates and traces of central folds in the double plates, slight wear to the folders, torn laces)