BALTARD (Louis Pierre). Journal descriptif et croquis de vues pittoresques faits dans un voyage en Savoye du 10 au 21 août 1837. Lyon, Imprimerie de Brunet et Cie, 1837. In-4°, 45 pp, bound in half green basane with corners, smooth spine decorated with gilt title, spotted edges. spotting (Binding of the period). First and only edition of this extremely rare work, one of the first fully lithographed books, illustrated with 32 views in the text. An account of a trip to Savoie and the Chamonix valley during the Romantic period. The author leaves Grenoble, travels up the Graisivaudan and the Combe de Savoie, reaches Moutiers and Bourg-Saint-Maurice, then reaches Saint-Gervais via Les Chapieux and the Col du Bonhomme, visits Chamonix and returns to Geneva. Stamped on the title page and on two inside pages. A fine copy, virtually free of foxing. Louis-Pierre Baltard (1764-1846) was a landscape engraver; during his first trip to Italy in 1786, he discovered a passion for architecture, which he studied at the Royal Academy of Architecture. He was professor of architecture at the École polytechnique in 1796, then at the École des beaux-arts in 1818, architect of the Panthéon and of prisons: we owe him in particular the Palais de Justice in Lyon in 1842 and the Saint-Joseph prison in the same city (1836). It was his son, Victor Baltard (1805-1874), who designed the famous halles (covered market) in Paris. Perret, 0246- Meckly 012 - Regards sur les Alpes 36-B