Plan de Paris. Commence L’Annee 1734, dessine et grave sous les ordres de Messire Michel Turgot… / Leve et dessine par Louis Bretez / Grave par Claude Lucas / Et ecrit par Aubin.
Paris: Michel Turgot, c. 1739. Edition: First Edition. , Binding: recent red full morocco with the coats of arms of Paris.
, Notes: This is the most beautiful and celebrated plan of the city of Paris. Turgot’s maps were designed and engraved with scroll borders to the extreme edges, so that the entire twenty plates could be assembled to form one complete map of Paris (8 ½ x 10 ½ feet). Each arrondissement is shown from a birds-eye view; not only are the streets named and portrayed in detail, but all of the houses, hotels, churches, monuments, private gardens and city parks are delineated in panoramic perspective such that the architectural ornamentation of the buildings can be identified., Size: Tall folio (560 x 455 mm), Illustration: Complete with 20 double-page engraved panoramic maps, and double-page index plan., References: Berlin Katalog 2506; Boutier 219, Pages: P. 21 double-page plates., Category: Book Atlas & Cartography; Book Europe France; Book Plate Books General;. A fine copy, plates are generally very clean and crisp, and the atlas is in superb period binding. Item #B3268
Edition: First edition., Binding: recent red full morocco with the coats of arms of Paris.
, Notes: This is the most beautiful and celebrated plan of the city of Paris. Turgot’s maps were designed and engraved with scroll borders to the extreme edges, so that the entire twenty plates could be assembled to form one complete map of Paris (8 ½ x 10 ½ feet). Each arrondissement is shown from a birds-eye view; not only are the streets named and portrayed in detail, but all of the houses, hotels, churches, monuments, private gardens and city parks are delineated in panoramic perspective such that the architectural ornamentation of the buildings can be identified., Size: Tall folio (560 x 455 mm), Illustration: Complete with 20 double-page engraved panoramic maps, and double-page index plan., References: Berlin Katalog 2506; Boutier 219, Pages: P. 21 double-page plates., Category: Book Atlas & Cartography; Book Europe France; Book Plate Books General;.
Price: $18,500.00