Lot Essay
The preface of Volume XIV states that there are 109 hand-coloured maps and 343 plates. This edition contains 112 hand-coloured maps and 334 plates.
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LA VALLÉE (JOSEPH) and J.B.J. BRETON Voyage dans les Départemens de la France, Paris, Chez Brion, 1792-1803, 14 vols., 8vo, 334 engraved plates, 112 hand-coloured double page maps, 334 plates (the map of La Mayenne in vol. V torn at lower margin without loss to image, vol. IV C1 cleanly torn, some light browning and soiling), contemporary mottled calf (extremities rubbed).