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[TURGOT, Michelle Etienne, Marquis de Sousmons]. Plan de Paris, commencé l'année 1734. Achevé de Graveur en 1739. [Paris: 1739 or 1740].
2° (685 x 439mm). Engraved key plan and 20 plates, all double-page, by Claude Lucas after Louis Bretez. (Some spotting, mainly marginal or affecting folds.) 19th-century mottled boards backed in tree sheep (joints rubbed).
A cartographical tour de force, the 20 sheets forming a bird's eye view of Paris in the early 18th century. Brunet I, 1224, giving the date of publication as 1740.
2° (685 x 439mm). Engraved key plan and 20 plates, all double-page, by Claude Lucas after Louis Bretez. (Some spotting, mainly marginal or affecting folds.) 19th-century mottled boards backed in tree sheep (joints rubbed).
A cartographical tour de force, the 20 sheets forming a bird's eye view of Paris in the early 18th century. Brunet I, 1224, giving the date of publication as 1740.
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