Details
[FRANCE -- PARIS -- ENVIRONS]. DELAGRIVE, Abb JEAN. Environs de Paris levs geometriquement...dedis a M. le Marquis de Vatan Prevt des marchands et a Messrs. les Echevins de la ville en 1740. L'echelle est de 50 lignes pour milles Toises. [Paris, 1740, issued later]. Engraved map, 200 x 285 cm. approx., a few letters rubbed, very slight and occasional offsetting, dissected and mounted on 9 linen sheets, vellum pull-tags lettered and numbered in pen and ink, bookseller's label of Picquet with a miniature engraved key map below it on each verso. In two contemporary French quarter red morocco pull-off cases, red paper boards sides with gilt roll border, marbled paper edges, spines with SB monogram (possibly Stphanie de Beauharnais) and with new lettering labels, 218 x 150 mm. (cases worn). (2)
Provenance
Louis Dimier, bookplate dated 1921.