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Michel Etienne Turgot : 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

Michel Turgot, Paris, c. 1739

Full contemporary speckled calf, rebacked expertly matching the original calf and preserving the original spine, upper and lower boards with gilt Parisian coat of arms in centre, encased by gilt-tooled fleur-de-lis motif with fleur-de-lis corner-pieces, board edges and inner dentelles gilt with fleur-de-lis motif, spine in ten gilt compartments of raised bands, compartments with gilt fleur-de-lis motifs, red morocco label on two, all edges gilt, endpapers marbled. , Aside from some scratches to the upper board, this is a fine copy, plates are very clean and crisp, and the atlas is bound in decorative gilt full calf binding., Folio (650 x 450mm)., P. 21 double-page plates., Complete with 20 double-page engraved panoramic maps, and double-page index plan.

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., Berlin Katalog 2506; Boutier 219

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Michel Etienne Turgot : 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

Michel Turgot, Paris, c. 1739

Black & White, This is a fine copy, plates are very clean and crisp, and the atlas is bound in decorative gilt full calf binding., Size : 2438x32004 (mm), 96x1260 (Inches)

First edition.


Binding with full contemporary speckled calf, rebacked expertly matching the original calf and preserving the original spine.


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., Berlin Katalog 2506; Boutier 219

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